Blogs

Mike Swan commiserates over the decline in fish populations in the south country chalk streams.

I have seen the scenario many times, a lovely little bubbling brook, with a nice head of small trout, but nothing much over a few ounces in weight. The immediate response for someone who wants to improve the fishing potential is to suggest stocking with some bigger fish.

Every autumn we use PIT tags to mark juvenile salmon, which are detected at East Stoke when they go to sea as smolts and when they return as adults. 2021's first two PIT-tagged two-sea-winter salmon have been detected as they pass our floating PIT antennae:

The latest SAMARCH Project newsletter has just been published and is now available to download.

We have been asked by the ‘Welsh Partnership of Local Marine Protected Areas’ (funded by Welsh Government) to undertake a study into the ‘Effects of COVID 19 on litterpicking activities on the Welsh Coastline and Rivers’.

Watch this short video featuring trout and salmon passing through the GWCT Fisheries counter on the River Frome in Dorset.

This morning the first PIT-tagged adult of the year returned to the River Frome. In fact, the first two tagged adult salmon were detected within five minutes of each other at East Stoke!