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 to this placement, I had been...
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 given prints of Atlantic...
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 BU, this short summer placement was a fantastic...
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 to step into a river and then willingly put...
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 of more than 10,000 salmon and 3,000...
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 Bianka Tarbay (Bournemouth University): I was very lucky to gain work experience with the Game and Wildlife Conservation Trust where my job was to help out with the monitoring of the salmon smolts. Our main job was to collect the fish from the trap every half an...
By Jake Hill. SAMARCH is a wonderful opportunity for any up and coming ecologist, not only did I get the chance to enhance my skills filed work and data collection but also had the opportunity to network with people that work in the scientific community giving me a...
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 worked with the team for the last few...
SAMARCH Work Package WP T3 co-leads Etienne Rivot and Stephen Gregory both attended this year’s ICES WGNAS. Every year, the International Council for the Exploration of the Seas (ICES) is asked to provide information and recommendations on Atlantic salmon stocks...
By Ossi Turunen, Bournemouth University Since having done my internship with the SAMARCH project in the autumn of 2018, I have been working on a communications work package in order to produce a newsletter for the SAMARCH project. This newsletter is designed to...
By Ossi Turunen, Bournemouth University The Family Science Festival took place in Dorchester Corn Exchange (Dorset, UK) on Sunday 17 March and SAMARCH took part of this great event to celebrate the International Year of the Salmon. The Festival was a great success...