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
My time working with SAMARCH researchers
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
Smolt run monitoring of Frome for 2019 comes to an end!
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
SAMARCH at the 2019 ICES Working Group of North Atlantic Salmon
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
The SAMARCH Newsletter & what’s coming in the future
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
SAMARCH Celebrates the International Year of the Salmon at Family Science Festival in Dorchester!
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
International scientists meet to help sea trout
International scientists specialising in trout and sea trout were hosted by the Game and Wildlife Conservation Trust and the SAMARCH project during the last week of February. The group is a science group (WGTRUTTA) within the International Council for the
99 sea trout tagged successfully, despite the weather
The latest round of our sea trout kelt tagging programme has recently been completed. Despite high water and flooding for most of November and December, between late Nov to Feb we caught some 120 sea trout kelts on the Frome,
Agrocampus students produce two videos to aid the recovery of tags from our adult sea trout
On Friday the 25th of January, three students from Arocampus Quest University in Rennes, Brittany came to the GWCT’s Salmon and Trout Research Centre at East Stoke, Dorset to present two videos (you can watch them below) and posters they
Reflecting on the 2018 smolt run working with the GWCT
By Adele Green, Bournemouth University In April 2018 I completed a placement on the River Frome, Wareham, Dorset, as a research assistant from Bournemouth university in collaboration with the GWCT for SAMARCH. From late March to mid-May, the team aim