Blogs
22/9/2022 in: Fisheries Blog under: Fishing
Jess Brooks joins Rasmus Lauridsen and Luke Scott from the GWCT's fisheries team, catching young salmon and trout in a tributary of the River Frome, an internationally important chalk river.
13/4/2022 in: Fisheries Blog under: Fishing
The 25th March marked the start of the smolt trapping on the River Frome! This is one of the busiest times of the year for the GWCT Fisheries Team.
25/3/2022 in: Fisheries Blog under: Fishing
On 10 March the GWCT Fisheries Team detected the first returning PIT-tagged adult salmon of 2022 passing the antennae on the River Frome at East Stoke.
11/3/2022 in: Fisheries Blog under: Fishing
On Saturday 12th March, GWCT's SAMARCH Fisheries Project Officer, Will Beaumont, will be leading a FREE workshop on "Identifying River Wildlife in Sydling Water".
23/2/2022 in: Fisheries Blog under: Fishing , GWCT Partners
A new paper entitled “Using Food Webs and Metabolic Theory to Monitor, Model, and Manage Atlantic Salmon—A Keystone Species Under Threat“ provides an insightful exploration of how we might combine data and theory to develop new modelling approaches to predict and manage how Atlantic salmon will respond to future changes.
15/2/2022 in: Fisheries Blog under: Fishing
At 6:13am, on the 24th January 2022 the camera attached to our resistivity counter on the flow gauging weir on the main stem of the River Frome at East Stoke, recorded a SEAL ascending the weir.
1/9/2021 in: Fisheries Blog under: Fishing , GWCT in the media
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.
20/5/2021 in: Fisheries Blog under: Fishing
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:
18/2/2021 in: Fisheries Blog under: Fishing
The latest SAMARCH Project newsletter has just been published and is now available to download.
31/7/2020 in: Fisheries Blog under: Fishing , GWCT Wales
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