Fisheries Blog

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!

The Atlantic Salmon Trust, Salmon & Trout Conservation and the Game and Wildlife Conservation Trust are delighted to publish the proceedings of the 2019 SAMARCH Project International Salmonid Coastal and Marine Telemetry Workshop, which was held in Southampton on the 5th and 6th of November 2019.

The 2018 GWCT Fisheries Research Report is now online and available to download here.

Find out more about one of the key objectives of the SAMARCH project, which is to shed light on the movements, locations and swimming depths of sea trout at sea. 

The first recordings of returning tagged salmon to the River Frome this year happened more than a month later than in 2017. However, this will hopefully be the first of many tagged multi sea-winter salmon returning to the Frome in 2018.

GWCT Fisheries Scientist Will Beaumont recently spent two nights tagging juvenile sea trout on their way to sea as part of the SAMARCH project.

GWCT Senior Fisheries Scientist Bill Beaumont explains how technology used to track salmon has advanced since work began in 2003.

The Partnership agreement with the Environment Agency is proving to be very beneficial for discussing ideas and for gaining the various permissions etc. that the project requires for the SAMARCH sampling campaign.