GWCT News Blog

More than 250 people from across the northern hemisphere gathered in London recently to call for urgent action to conserve, protect and restore the world’s wild salmon. Speakers from across the world delivered fascinating and insightful talks on a wide range of issues affecting both wild Atlantic and Pacific salmon and the people who depend on these species.

As someone who has worked to research and conserve wild Atlantic salmon for over 30 years, GWCT Head of Fisheries Dylan Roberts is enraged, that both national and international governments have allowed our rivers to deteriorate into such a sad state.

GWCT Patron, His Majesty King Charles III’s new 50p coin adorned with a wild Atlantic salmon has officially become the rarest and most collectible at a time when wild salmon numbers are the lowest on record.

Bill Beaumont has been working on salmon on the River Frome in Dorset for 50 years, and now he works alongside his son, Will

British ecopoet, Helen Moore, has kindly shared her salmon inspired poem ‘Migration Story’ with us for our ‘Save Our Salmon’ appeal.

We’re very excited to be launching our very first Fishing Raffle. The prize, kindly donated by Orvis UK, is a spectacular day’s fishing for 6 Rods on the flagship 'Ginger Beer' beat along the River Test in Hampshire.

The GWCT welcomes the proposed amendments to the government’s Levelling Up and Regeneration Bill (LURB) that would add chalk streams into the definitions of ‘environmental protection’ and ‘natural environment’ in the bill, meaning that the government must consider chalk streams when setting the outcomes that will form the framework of environmental assessments in the future.

The IFM’s Sea Trout Symposium will be held in Cardiff on the 12^th and 13^th of September at the Angel Hotel.

The Missing Salmon Alliance (MSA) invite the public to join them for an evening in conversation with key UK conservationists to talk about the situation facing our UK chalk streams and the species and biodiversity within these environments.