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By Dr Sophie Elliott, Fish Scientist
It has been a challenging season for the fish research team here at East Stoke in Dorset. The exceptionally high rainfall has led to extremely high river levels, making it impossible for us to carry out much of our field work and shortening other parts, which...
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The SAlmonid MAnagement Round the CHannel (SAMARCH) project, set out to deliver new information to improve the protection of our threatened wild salmon and sea trout in estuaries and coastal waters, started in 2017 and now holds its closing conference on the 14th and 15th of March 2023 in Southam...
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Why some trout migrate out to sea and why some stay in their natal river has fascinated fishermen, but now a new study is providing some answers. Jill Goodwin explains.
Brown trout and sea trout are the same species (Salmo trutta L.). Some individuals (sea trout) migrate to sea before returning t...
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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.
With speakers including Dylan Roberts (GWCT), Stuart Si...
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Our Head of Fisheries Dylan Roberts looks at the reintroduction of beavers into the British countryside and the consequences for the existing wildlife
There has been much media coverage about the reintroduction of Eurasian beavers into the countryside, but are they clever engineers whose dams be...
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Letter sent to The Shooting Times by Mike Swan, Head of Education
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Richard Negus is quite right that beavers have not been a problem for salmon on most Norwegian rivers (Country Diary 23 June). However, he is also quite right that the Norwegian rivers are very different from our own...
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All this week the BBC Radio 4 Farming Today programme has been exploring the future of salmon, both farmed and wild. This morning they spoke to Stuart Singleton-White, representing the Missing Salmon Alliance (MSA), about the pressures that wild salmon face and what can be done to give wild salmo...
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By Henrietta Appleton, GWCT Policy Officer (England)
In early 2021 Dylan Roberts, our Head of Fisheries, wrote a blog on the reintroduction of beavers entitled “Environmental Engineer or a waterway menace?”. With the launch of the Species Reintroduction Task Force and in particular calls for bea...
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You want to maximise your down time, escape the city and disconnect from the bustle of everyday life to reconnect, then a fishing trip in Scotland could be the perfect antidote.
I’ve always seen fishing as a form of relaxation therapy and a way to completely shut out the conscious babble and con...
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Earlier this year the GWCT policy team was invited to respond to a consultation on Environmental Targets. We feel the 25-year Environmental Plan is ambitious, but it will take focused effort to meet its goals.
Our thoughts were as follows:
A need for the right focus
We are concerned that there a...
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