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Current projects

Project title & description	Project head	Funder	Start	End
Fisheries research Develop wild trout fishery management methods including completion of write up/reports of all historic fishery activity	Dylan Roberts	Core funds	1997	Ongoing
Monnow habitat improvement project Large-scale conservation project and scientific monitoring of 30 km of river habitat on the river Monnow in Herefordshire	Dylan Roberts	Defra, Rural Enterprise Scheme, Monnow Improvement Partnership	2003	Ongoing
Releasing trout fry Survival of domesticated triploid farmed trout fry stocked from incubator boxes in chalk streams and their impacts on wild trout	Dylan Roberts, Dominic Stubbing	Core funds	2008	2013
Survival of native trout fry Survival of native trout fry stocked from incubator boxes on the Candover Brook	Dylan Roberts, Dominic Stubbing	EA, Vitacress Conservation Trust, Core funds	2008	2011
Salmon life history strategies in freshwater Understanding population declines in salmon	Dylan Roberts, Anton Ibbotson	Core funds, Environment Agency, Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science, Valentine Trust, Alice Ellen Cooper Dean Charitable Foundation, Atlantic Salmon Trust, Salmon and Trout Association, Garfield Weston Foundation	2009	Ongoing
Salmon Smolt Screw trap assessment Calculating the effects of screw traps on salmon smolts	Dylan Roberts, Anton Ibbotson	CEFAS	2009	Ongoing
Avon demonstration test catchment project Impact of farm practice mitigation measures on fish	Dylan Roberts	Defra	2010	2014
PhD studentships	Supervisor	Funder	Start	End
Pike project Impact of pike removal and weed management on brown trout	Dylan Roberts, Dr R. Gozlan, Dr R. Britten/Bournemouth University	Bournemouth University, Core funds	2009	2013
Water temperatures and salmonids Micro habitat use by salmonids in relation to temperature	Dylan Roberts, Dr Paul Kemp/Southampton University	Southampton University, Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, Core funds	2009	2013

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