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Scotland Outdoors

Electrofishing, Ants and Crocodile Rock

Scotland Outdoors

BBC

Nature, Society & Culture, Science

4.7709 Ratings

🗓️ 12 October 2019

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Summary

Mark Stephen and Euan McIlwraith with a podcast featuring ants, leeches and cranes.

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0:00.0

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0:09.3

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0:17.6

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0:22.0

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0:26.3

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0:27.4

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0:29.9

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0:32.8

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0:35.6

Hello and thank you very much for downloading the internationally recognised and acclaimed Scotland Outdoors podcast.

0:41.3

He's Mark Steven, I'm Ewan McElwraith and we're keen to hear your stories about life and outdoors,

0:45.3

the matter where you are in the world.

0:47.3

And our email address is out of doors at BBC.co.uk.

0:51.3

There are certain scientific subjects which are harder to do than others. For example, anything to do with fish.

0:58.3

Yeah. First you have to catch the fish. Slippery. Not easy. Not easy. Fast. Underwater. The fact, indeed,

1:05.2

usually, usually, hopefully for them. But the fact is, we can learn a lot about the health of our rivers, for example,

1:12.2

if we catch the fish. So it is important to catch the fish. I went down to Denny near Falkak

1:17.2

where Dr. Jill Gervin and her team showed me their technique for catching fish.

1:22.4

We're from the Fourth Rivers Trust, which is based in Edinburgh, and we deal with all the rivers that flow into

1:29.0

the Firth of Fourth. So rivers in Fife, Stirlingshire, the Lothians. What we're going to be

1:35.5

doing this afternoon is electrofishing. Now there's Jack and Ian in front of us, looking like a sort of

1:40.1

Ghostbusters tribute act. Ian's got the long pole there

1:44.2

and it's going to ring at the end of it.

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