June

This year’s smolt run has finally finished. After seven weeks of around-the-clock work, we are exhausted but pleased with the results. We estimated a total of 9,539 smolts passing our base at East Stoke in Dorset, which is slightly up on the five-year average (9,033), but down on the ten-year average (10,220).

Rasmus Lauridsen reports on the return of the first salmon to have been tagged using our new PIT detection equipment.

Last month we welcomed Sarah Chare, Deputy Director of Fisheries, Biodiversity and Geomorphology at the Environment Agency, to the Salmon & Trout Research Centre in Dorset.