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Our Trustees

Richard Davies - 
Chairman

Richard is passionate about wild fish and wild places. He spent eleven years working as a bailiff and ghillie in the Hebrides as a student and young man before embarking on a business career. He has a degree in Rural Resource Management, specialising in salmonid and salmonid habitat management. He enjoys writing, natural history & film making, and lives in Crowlista, Uig, with work including "Atlantic Salmon - A Life on The Edge". He is familiar with most mixed fisheries int he Hebrides and many in the North of Scotland, and still catches the odd fish from time to time.

Ian Maciver -
Stornoway Trust Estate

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Factor for the Stornoway Trust Estate since 1993, past Chairman of the East Lewis Board, founder member of the Western Isles Fisheries Trust and Western Isles District Salmon Fishery Board. Past President of the Scottish Crofters Union and still actively involved in crofting and community development work. Iain is also on our Management Committee

Oliver Foote - 

North Uist

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Oliver Foote is a self- employed dental technician based on the island of North Uist. Originally from London, he relocated to the Outer Hebrides over a decade ago so that he could be closer to the fishing waters that he knew as a visiting angler. Oliver is a committee member of the North Uist Angling Club, a qualied fishing guide and water bailiff. Oliver resides in Grimsay with his wife Catherine, and enjoys fly tying, gardening, wildlife and cooking.

Dickon Green -
Uig Lodge Estate

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Dickon manages Uig Lodge Fishery and the Uig Lodge Smokery. Dickon and his wife Elly moved up to the island to live here permanently during 2011.

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Dickon is also the new District Salmon Fisheries Board Chariman.

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Iain Trayner - Stornoway Angling Association

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Innes Morrison -
Amhuinnshudhe

Castle Estate

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Innes has worked on North Harris Estate from a young age, employed in many different roles under several different owners. He has now held the position of Estate Manager for Amhuinnsuidhe Castle Estate for a number of years. This has allowed him the opportunity to fulfil his passion in fishing and field sports, and to manage the seven loch systems and create a very successful fishery.

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Innes likes to spend his spare time out on the hills and lochs with rod and gun, and to follow the football and attend other organisations in the local community. 

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George Macdonald

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George is a Stornoway Cove who as a young man worked for 21 years as an assistant in the Stornoway Trust Estate Office before relocating in 1995 to take on the role of factor of North Uist and North Harris estates.  He remained in North Uist as factor till 2017 when he returned to Lewis and since then has been overseeing the restoration of Rodel House in Harris, a 18th century merchants's house that was formerly run as a Hotel.  Over the years he has been heavily involved in fisheries management having been clerk to the East Lewis, Loch Roag, Harris, and Mullanagearan (Uist) District Salmon Fishery Boards from 1983 until their amalgamation in 2001 and remained as Clerk of the newly constituted Western Isles District Salmon Fishery Board until 2005.  He was also founding Trustee and Secretary/Treasurer of the Western Isles Fisheries Trust, now the Outer Hebrides Fisheries Trust, since its inception in 1996 until 2007.  He currently livers in Stornoway and is Vice Chairman of the Stornoway Historical Society and a Trustee of the Stornoway Trust.

 

 

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Charlie Nicolson - 
Stornoway
 

Charlie completed his education at Aberdeen College and previously at Knock Primary school and the Nicolson Institute. Charlie is involved in a variety of roles with Stornoway Amenity Trust, Lewis Blythswood, Stornoway High Church, Lewis & Harris Football Association and the Bayhead Youth Group. Charlie’s main hobbies are freshwater fishing, table tennis and music.

 

Michael Hill - Bakkafrost​

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Michael is the Biological Stakeholder Manager at Bakkafrost Scotland, which farms salmon in Lewis, Harris and Benbecula.  In addition to regulatory, biological environmental aspects, Michaels's role focuses on engagement with the Wild Fisheries sector in Bakkafrost's areas of operation.  Prior to aquaculture, Michael worked in environmental consultancy covering both terrestrial and aquatic ecology, having obtained his degree in Marine and Freshwater Biology MSci (Hons) from the University of Glasgow.                                                                       

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