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It was widely reported that numbers of juvenile Atlantic salmon were substantially reduced in rivers around southern Europe, including England and Wales, in 2016.
Young salmon and trout electro-fishing survey data and egg numbers since 1992 from seven Welsh rivers, representing rivers...
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The Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust charitable objects are:
To promote for the public benefit, the conservation of game and its associated flora and fauna.
To conduct research into game and wildlife management (including the use of game animals as a natural resource) and the effects of f...
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The Trust carries out research with a wide range of organisations. We would like to thank these organisations for their assistance with this research and their co-operation with wildlife conservation.
Below is a list of these organisations with links to their sites.
Atlantic Salmon Trust
The Bri...
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This submission has been produced by the Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust in Wales (GWCT), a research and education charity that has had over 1,000 scientific papers published in peer-reviewed journals over the past 80 years, more than 100 of which were on issues relating to predation and ...
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The Trust has carried out work on fish since the 1970s when work began on fish populations and other wildlife in lakes created after the extraction of gravel.
Declining wild brown trout populations were researched in the early 1990s to try and halt the declines and successes through habitat manag...
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Waders such as curlew, lapwing, snipe and redshank are in rapid decline despite the millions of pounds invested in habitat improvements. Breeding numbers in the agricultural lowlands are now insufficient for population recovery. GWCT research has consistently proven that predator control can reve...
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Scientific research is essential to the development of policies to protect our wildlife and the environment; our laws, regulations and guidance must be founded in sound science. Yet separating science and emotion can be challenging, with scientific evidence sometimes ignored or misrepresented:
G...
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European grayling. Photo courtesy of Bob Wellard.
Recent WGTS annual surveys indicate that the grayling population continues to decline: 2019 yielded the lowest number of grayling since surveys began in 1996.
The Grayling Research Trust, The Piscatorial Society and Wessex Water have funded a six-...
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