Fisheries Blog

Why some trout migrate out to sea and why some stay in their natal river has fascinated fishermen, but now a new study is providing some answers. Jill Goodwin explains.

The GWCT Fisheries team have just published their 2015 report and you can download it today.

A PhD completed by Sui Chang Phang and match-funded by the GWCT has successfully co-created a new model that simulates individual behaviors and growth of brown trout and Atlantic salmon in rivers undergoing environmental change

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.