GWCT & INRA MorFish Project Conference

We are sorry but the conference is now full.  If you would like to go on a waiting list please contact Lynn Field on lfield@gwct.org.uk.

We are holding this conference to review progress in salmon population monitoring and modelling and to disseminate results of the MorFish project. Project MorFish has two objectives:

1. To align salmon population techniques and methods
2. To interrogate up to 40 years of data on Atlantic salmon populations collected on the rivers Frome, Scorff and Oir in the UK, Brittany and Normandy respectively

You can read more about project MorFish here.

The MorFish closing conference will bring together key speakers who are involved in salmon data collection, analysis and management. There will also be an opportunity to hear the results of collaborative work between GWCT and INRA on techniques for monitoring lamprey.

The event will be held over two days starting late morning on day one and finishing mid-afternoon on day two. Day one will focus on salmon counting: aims and techniques, while day two will focus on methods and advances in data modelling and lamprey. There will be professional French to English and English to French translation available on both days.

Places are strictly limited so we advise that you book early!

Programme highlights

• Chair for the event (Paul Knight, Salmon and Trout Association)

Day 1:

• Keynote speech (Nigel Milner, APEM)
• Developments in automatic fish counters for counting salmon (Jim Gregory, Environment Agency)
• Adult salmon monitoring (Stephen Gregory, GWCT)
• Salmon monitoring using PIT tag technology (Rasmus Lauridsen, GWCT)
• The importance of archive material in salmon management (Jean Marc Roussel, INRA)
• Salmon population monitoring in England and Wales (Ian Davidson, Natural Resources Wales)
• Historical management of French salmon rivers (Jean-Luc Bagliniere, INRA)
• Electric fishing for monitoring salmon (William Beaumont, GWCT)
• Key outputs of the MorFish Project (Dylan Roberts, GWCT)
• Summing up and discussion (David Solomon)
• Conference dinner at the Springfield Country Hotel

Day 2:

• Index rivers: Their contribution to management (Etienne Prevost, INRA)
• MorFish interrogation of long-term data sets (Stephen Gregory, GWCT)
• The importance of individual based modelling (Marie Nevoux, INRA)
• Developments in modelling techniques for salmon (Etienne Rivot, Agrocampus Ouest)
• Monitoring techniques for lamprey (Julien Tremblay, INRA)
• Summing up and discussion (David Solomon)
• A field trip to see the GWCT salmon monitoring systems on the River Frome (weather and river conditions permitting)

There will be professional French to English and English to French translation available on both days.