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New insights into sea trout at sea
By Dylan Roberts, GWCT Head of Fisheries & SAMARCH Project Manager The SAMARCH project, part funded by the EU’s Interreg Channel Project and the Missing Salmon Alliance, has been underway since 2017 and the project, which has a heavy science focus is beginning to...
A placement year spent working on SAMARCH (Video)
By Vic Hyde, Bournemouth University Enjoy the video of my time spent on the SAMARCH project with the GWCT! Featuring an introduction to the project, videos and photos of electro-fishing, the safe handling of juvenile and adult brown trout, sea trout and salmon, the...
A 1 minute 39 second summary of a visit to the Scorff!
By Genoveva Esteban, Bournemouth University Louan Dautreppe, Zacharie Coq, and Nathan Dalbet (working with Ivan Bernez at Agrocampus Ouest) visited the Scorff a couple of weeks ago and have produced a cheerful short video about their visit. The video is only 1 minute...
Good things come in threes
By Genoveva Esteban (Bournemouth University) and Ivan Bernez (Agrocampus Ouest) Three French Masters’ students from Agrocampus Ouest have joined SAMARCH this academic year, supervised by Ivan Bernez. They are Zacharie Coq, Louan Dautreppe and Nathan Dalbet. They came...
My university placement: presenting, a new career
By Vic Hyde, Bournemouth University From the very start of my university placement I took it upon myself to produce a video of my time spent with SAMARCH. Through the 25 days volunteering with the EU-funded project, I fulfilled a long-held ambition to help research...
Teeming with life
By Will Fisher, Bournemouth University Who knew Dorset’s rivers and streams held such a diverse array of fish? I certainly did not and was fortunate enough to spend three weeks tagging Salmon and Trout alongside incredibly knowledgeable and supportive GWCT scientists....
Hard work with long days but extremely rewarding
By Lewis Webster, Bournemouth University During this placement, I felt I developed many new skills both from a technical and a professional standpoint. I did not have much prior knowledge of the Salmonidae nor of electrofishing techniques, but due to the many hours...
Summer tagging with SAMARCH
By Gary Packwood, Bournemouth University I was fortunate enough to undertake fieldwork with some GWCT fisheries scientists who are working on the SAMARCH project for 3 weeks this summer. Our team of Bournemouth University students shared the work tasks each day either...
10 days well spent
By Caitlin McQuillan, Bournemouth University. I spent 10 days in Wareham working for the Game and Wildlife Conservation Trust on this project for my placement and thoroughly enjoyed my time there. I got involved with a variety of tasks including getting in the river...
Let’s celebrate the World Ocean Day!
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Proceedings of the 2019 SAMARCH Project International Salmonid Coastal and Marine Telemetry Workshop
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...
Our visit to the River Lab
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 later in the year....