When the first ova hatched at the Sanday mini-hatchery 10 days ago, we were looking forward to seeing the bottom of the tank crawling with the transluscent pinky-orange alevins within a matter of hours or days. However, we’ve had to wait until today to discover that all the eggs (apart from maybe a dozen) had hatched over the week-end. Now (and some people are going to be disappointed when reading this ;-)), after very close inspection, I still couldn’t spot Trevor TT nor Tilly TTT who seem to have disappeared into the crowd… 

The great news is that most our ova have made it and that hopefully, we’ll be able to release about 280 alevins into Bea Loch in a few weeks.

Mr. Pietri