Author: Rob Beeson

By Emily Winter, Bournemouth University I thoroughly enjoyed the few days spent with the Game and Wildlife Conservation Trust tagging salmon and trout parr in Dorset. It was great to escape the office hum drum, get into some waders and

By Erika Nishitani, Bournemouth University I worked on the SAMARCH Project for one week at the beginning of September. This was during the end of the salmonid and sea trout parr tagging with the Game and Wildlife Conservation Trust. Prior

By Ossi Turunen, Bournemouth University SAMARCH was represented at the ‘Bournemouth Arts by the Sea Festival’ on Saturday 28th September, as I held a Fish Life themed family workshop as a part of the BU Green Hub activities. Children were

By Joe Fell The three weeks I spent on the River Frome tagging thousands of juvenile salmon and trout was a completely new experience for me, and one that I learned a lot from. As an environmental science student from

By Alastair Scott After volunteering for a couple of weeks for the GWCT Annual Salmonid Parr Tagging at the Frome I am exhausted – but I had a fantastic time! Having very little to no prior fishing experience, being told

By Ossi Turunen, Bournemouth University The salmon and trout parr tagging at River Frome has come to an end, yet again. 2019 was my second year with the SAMARCH research team during the intense three weeks during which a total

Part 1 During April 2019 I took part in a university placement with the European SAMARCH project, which involved cataloguing the scale samples collected from thousands of different Atlantic salmon collected since the 1950’s! The cataloguing started with procuring the

By Ossi Turunen, Bournemouth University Since the monitoring of the spring smolt run for Frome started in March, the SAMARCH team has been working non-stop to collect as much data on the salmon and sea trout smolts as possible. I