The Atlantic Salmon Trust 2025 Auction is now live! It runs online at astauction.org until 9pm on Sunday 30th November.
We have some truly outstanding lots on offer this year thanks to the incredible generosity of our donors. From amazing fishing and sporting trips, to ski holidays, private dining experiences, art, food & drink, gear & clothing – this year’s auction has it all.
View our digital flipbook catalogue
Want to flick through the pages of our digital catalogue? Click here or on the image below to view it. Remember to head to astauction.org to place your bids though!
Your support matters
Every bid counts – your support means our team can continue working tirelessly to restore wild Atlantic salmon and their environment through the delivery of research and restoration projects.
This year our work with partners has included dam removal on the Deveron, a pioneering smolt-to-adult supplementation trial on the Dee, community engagement and high-tech drone mapping on the Isle of Lewis, operating one of the country’s most advanced monitored rivers on the Laxford, continuing to publish research from the Moray Firth and West Coast Tracking Projects, as well as preparing to launch Project White Hart on the Test and Itchen in Hampshire. We’ve also inspired hundreds of school children, led international awareness campaigns and advocated for better policy and regulation at the highest levels. Your bids keep pushing us forward.
Pedro Landale, Chairman
Wild Atlantic salmon continue along a crisis path. This year we’ve seen disastrously low numbers of adult salmon returning to our rivers, we’ve seen droughts and soaring temperatures up and down the country, and yet more incidents of pollution in our rivers and around our coasts. The Atlantic Salmon Trust and our partners in the wider Missing Salmon Alliance are fighting tooth and nail to reverse this trend and put the species on the pathway to recovery. In order to do that, we’re working at an ever larger and more impactful scale.
At the beginning of this year the Alliance hosted a major international conference in London, WiId Salmon Connections, to launch the Wild Salmon Declaration – a document which aligns leading wild salmon conservation organisations, businesses and individuals from across the Atlantic and Pacific behind a shared set of values. With the forging of new international partnerships, we are positioning wild salmon recovery at the heart of global efforts to tackle the twin crisis of climate change and biodiversity loss.
The Atlantic Salmon Trust itself is playing a key role in this movement. Our Core Rivers programme, Project Laxford and Project Deveron, is setting the benchmark for catchment-scale salmon restoration, combining strategic habitat resilience with two of the most advanced monitoring systems in the country. This includes sonar imaging cameras, microchip fish tagging, environmental DNA analysis, advanced drones equipped with thermal imaging, and more. We’re throwing everything we can at saving this iconic species. Through our Watershed Connections programme, the Trust is now advising and supporting a growing network of catchment-scale restoration projects from the far north of Scotland and Outer Hebrides to the chalk streams of Hampshire. Our research team provides the foundation which supports this action on the ground and they continue to publish peer-reviewed science which underpins this restoration work, and supports our advocacy strategy.
We can’t do any of this without you, our supporters and donors. Our fundraising auction is a core part of powering our team forward. I’d like to personally thank the donors of this year’s incredible lots, and to all of our supporters for their bids. Please bid generously, bid boldly, and bid to bring this remarkable animal back from the brink.
Pedro Landale
Chairman, Atlantic Salmon Trust
Lianne MacLennan, Private Fundraiser
This has been my first year with the Trust overseeing our fundraising auction. I’d like to express my sincere gratitude to everyone who is playing a continued role in supporting our vital work, and our wild Atlantic salmon. To the donors of our incredible auction lots, an enormous thank you in particular. Your kindness, generosity, and enthusiasm to help has been overwhelming. From some of the best fishing and sporting lots in the country to incredible holiday homes and everything in between, this year’s offering is outstanding. It has been a privilege to witness first-hand the commitment and passion of our supporters.
To our bidders – this is where you come in! Please bid generously and help us spread the word. Our auction is one of the most important parts of our fundraising calendar, providing vital resources that enable our team to continue our work to restore wild salmon and their environment. Every lot, every bid, and every act of kindness plays a direct role in safeguarding the future of this iconic species.
On behalf of the whole team, thank you for the trust you place in us and for standing alongside us in this mission. Your support makes all the difference — to us, to our work, and to the future of our beloved wild Atlantic salmon.
Lianne MacLennan
Private Fundraiser
