SAlmonid MAnagement Round the CHannel
The Atlantic Salmon Trust, Salmon & Trout Conservation and the Game and Wildlife Conservation Trust are delighted to publish the proceedings of the 2019 SAMARCH Project International Salmonid Coastal and Marine Telemetry Workshop, which was held in Southampton on the
By Victor Hyde Yesterday was a great day. I and two other undergraduate students from Bournemouth University visited the River Lab (East Stoke, UK) to familiarise ourselves with the site of the SAMARCH project, which is our university placement for
By Ossi Turunen, Bournemouth University Last week I joined the SAMARCH team and partners in Paris for the project meeting — and what an amazing experience it was! The two days of presentations by the project partners, discussions and networking
By Ossi Turunen, Bournemouth University I spent the last week with the SAMARCH research team at the River Frome going after the sea trout kelts to tag them, and what a wonderful time I had! The river was flooded, flows
By Ossi Turunen, Bournemouth University Since the first time working with SAMARCH in the Autumn of 2018 I have been truly hooked into the field work the project provides. I have now experienced the parr tagging twice – loved it
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