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Ballogie Estate Enterprises.
Ballogie Estate Office. Aboyne, Aberdeenshire AB31 5DS
Salmon fishing operation on 3.5 miles of the river Dee. In addition to our holiday cottages there is a large portfolio of let property, residential, commercial and agricultural, including three farm and Midstrath Equiworld Club.
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River Dee Trust & Dee District Salmon Fishery Board
River Office, Mill of Dinnet Mill of Dinnet Aboyne AB34 5LA
The River Dee is an internationally important environment for wildlife and is designated a Special Area of Conservation (SAC) for its populations of Atlantic salmon, otters and freshwater pearl mussels.
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Many thanks to Ballogie Estate for facilitating this camera's location and to the River Dee Trust & Dee District Salmon Fishery Board for their help in arranging its installation.The River Dee is one of the world's great salmon rivers it rises at approximately 4000 feet in elevation on the plateau of Braeriach, the highest source of any major river in the British Isles. Water emerges in a number of pools and flows across the plateau to the cliff edge, then plunges into An Garbh Choire. The young Dee joins a tributary from the Pools of Dee in the Lairig Ghru and passes between Ben Macdui and Cairn Toul. The river flows over falls in the Chest of Dee on its way to White Bridge, the confluence of the Geldie Burn. The Dee is important for nature conservation and the area has many designated sites.[1] The upper catchment is within the Cairngorms National Nature Reserve and (since 2003) Cairngorms National Park. Much of the semi-natural Caledonian pine woods in Scotland are within the Dee catchment.