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We are currently in the final days of the 2020 smolt migration, where we have detected more than 1,000 tagged salmon smolts heading to sea, and this morning the first PIT-tagged adult of the year returned to the Frome. In fact, the first two tagged adult salmon were detected within five minutes o...
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First trout smolt caught in 2022
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.
At the start of the smolt run, the majority of the smolts are migrating at night. So, the Fisheries Team work arou...
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The Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust (GWCT) has monitored Atlantic salmon numbers in the River Frome, at our Salmon & Trout Research Centre since 1973. Creating one of the most comprehensive records of salmon movement in England and Wales. But the scientists based there have never seen...
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5 minute readBy Jess Brooks
On a bright September afternoon in Dorset, I am in a pair of green waders in a gravel-bottomed tree-lined stream. The rain has cleared, the gnats have come out and the shrill squeak of a kingfisher pierces the gentle sound of shallow water.
Luke Scott, Fisheries Scient...
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This week the GWCT Fisheries Team met to celebrate the achievements of Dr Céline Artero and Thomas Lecointre on the SAMARCH project, and wish them good luck for the next stage of their careers.
Dr Céline Artero with a sea trout on the River Tamar, one of the five study rivers where fish tracking...
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By Lawrence Gray, winner of the GWCT Norfolk MacNab Raffle
After being told that I had won the competition for two to complete the Norfolk MacNab, my fishing/shooting pal Tim French and I headed the 180 miles north east from Andover in Hampshire to Narford Hall near Kings Lynn. We had booked into...
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Please come and join us for the first ever Women Who Work in Fieldsports event. The event is an In Conversation with Alexandra Henton, Editor of The Field Magazine, and Claire Zambuni, Founder of Zambuni PR. They will be discussing their experiences working within the fieldsport industry and the ...
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Credit: Richard -Davies
To coincide with the release of the fourth episode of Wild Isles, a new BBC One wildlife series presented by Sir David Attenborough, in which he states that “there has been a 70% loss in 25 years and [wild Atlantic] salmon could be extinct in the next two decades”, Missin...
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This work was made possible with the kind support of The G & K L B Boyes Charitable Trust
New research has found that water crowfoot - an aquatic plant found commonly in lowland rivers – has multiple benefits for young Atlantic salmon, and that active management of the plant could be importa...
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There is stark news for the world’s fish in the latest species reassessment by the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Published on 11 December, the report shows that nearly a quarter of the world’s freshwater fish are at risk of extinction, with the main UK population of Atlantic salmon reclas...
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