Opening Ceremony 2025
Tuesday 11 February, 9am
Come along and watch the Spey begin its new fishing season

As recently announced in the local media, we want to remind all our friends in the local Aberlour and nearby community to come and visit our opening ceremony for 2025. 

We will begin as usual at the Penny Bridge, Alice Littler Park, Aberlour starting at 9am

Richard Anderson will be our Piper for the ceremony and Reverend Donald Walker will give the blessing. We thank them for their support.

Our Guest of Honour this year is John Anderson, who will ‘open’ the river. John, a long-serving ghillie at Tulchan Estate, recently retired after 42 years of service. We wish John every happiness in his retirement. 

Car parking is available and please remember, if you are bringing young children, to supervise them at all times near to the River and within the car parking and surrounding area.

To help celebrate the start of the new salmon fishing season, drams of the new 11yo Aberlour Scottish Oak FInish from the 2024 Distillery Reserve Collection, will be served by the Aberlour Distillery Team.

Hot drinks supplied by the Aberlour Hotel will be offered during the opening ceremony, along with samples of Walkers shortbread.

The Spey Fishery Board is grateful to Aberlour Distillery, Walkers Shortbread and the Aberlour Hotel for their continued generous sponsorship of this event.

Job Vacancy: Fisheries Officer

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The Spey Fishery Board has an exciting opportunity for a new Fisheries Officer, when the present incumbent retires in early May 2021.

The principal role of the Fisheries Officer will be the enforcement of fisheries law, to protect the River Spey, its tributaries and coastline from illegal fishing. Working as part of a wider team, the Fisheries Officer will also assist in the monitoring and management of wild salmon and sea trout populations and their habitats throughout the catchment. The role will also include taking part in landscape-scale habitat management, working with the Spey Catchment Initiative. This will be mainly outdoor work, often in or around water, in all weather conditions.

Full details of the position, the requirements we are looking for and the remuneration package can be found here.

Applications should be in the form of a covering letter with an accompanying CV and e-mailed to [email protected] by no later than 5pm on Friday 19th March 2021.

Interviews are likely to be held before the end of March.

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