We are the Dee District Salmon Fishery Board and River Dee Trust
Two organisations who look after the UK’s highest river and one of the best-known salmon fishing rivers worldwide.
Our stunning river stretches 81 miles from the source high up in the Cairngorms, right down through Royal Deeside to where it joins the North Sea at the City of Aberdeen.
We are working toward our vision of a thriving river supporting abundant biodiversity and binding strong the Deeside communities in Northeast Scotland.
The river Dee is also a focus for intense freshwater conservation actions to help save the iconic Atlantic salmon, threatened and representative of all wildlife’s imminent threats.
Winner of the Nature and Climate Action Award
for our #OneMillionTrees Campaign
Fish the Dee
The World famous River Dee has always offered the epitome of wild Scottish Atlantic Salmon fly fishing in clear, fast and classically shallow pools and runs.
Join us on the River Dee and experience this world famous salmon fishing river.
Success Stories
From breaking down barriers and restoring catchments, to keeping invasive predators under control, to reviving spawning areas and restoring wetlands – read all about some of our recent success stories.
Events
There is an event on the River Dee for everyone – whether it is our famous 24 hour fishing marathon, events to get more people taking up fly fishing, or an incredible charity auction, find out about what’s coming up and get involved.
Latest news
Benefits of Trees for Biodiversity
River managers have stressed the value of using wind-fallen trees in river restoration efforts to save endangered salmon stocks. The groups of trees, known as Large Woody Structures (LWS) have been used successfully in other parts of the world where fish species face...
Vacancy for Assistant Biologist
We have a position available with The River Dee Trust as an Assistant Biologist. This role will support the delivery of catchment monitoring and research, to guide restoration work and species conservation. This is a permanent position and is both field- and...
River restoration visit for local businesses
Guests of the River Dee Trust enjoyed a guided visit to Glen Muick on 7 November to see the progress of the transformational Save The Spring partnership programme. River Dee Guardians APEX Tubulars, together with guests from local businesses including Petrofac and...
Balmoral runners to combat climate-change impacts
Runners taking part in Run Balmoral 2025, will tackle the local impact of climate change and biodiversity loss and leave a legacy on Deeside. In an innovative move towards improving the sustainability of the popular annual running festival, organisers will commit to...
River Dee Report for the end of the 2024 season
So, we finally come to the end of the 2024 season and the tally for the 2 weeks of October comes to 207 for the month vs 234 last year, and the season total to 2287 vs 1747 last year, with some beats still to manually report figures to us then this will go up a wee...
Dee District Salmon Fishery Board AGM APM on 30 October 2024
River Dee at Banchory