The final phase of a project aimed at improving fish migration along the River Almond is set to get underway, after plans for changes to a historic Edinburgh weir were approved.
Councillors on the culture and communities committee were told that without investment in Dowies Mill Weir in Crammond, a "great majority" of the river will remain "largely inaccessible to migratory fish".
Salmonid, sea trout and salmon migrating through the Almond are said have been obstructed by seven local authority weirs in "very poor condition" in recent years, with Dowies Mill set to be the last to undergo alterations as part of the Almond Barriers Project.
