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 both times – and last Spring I did a...
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Never a dull moment tagging salmon in Dorset
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 refine my fishing skills in the...
Salmonid and sea trout parr tagging for SAMARCH
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...
SAMARCH does Arts by the Sea Festival!
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...
Three weeks tagging with the SAMARCH project – August & September 2019
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...
GWCT Annual Salmonid Parr Tagging 2019
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...
Two years of parr tagging and yearning for more!
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...
Work experience of large scale! By Alejandro Bonal-Romero, Bournemouth University
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...
My days on the smolt run
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...
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 work in the scientific community giving me a...
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 worked with the team for the last few...
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...