Blogs
17/3/2023 in: Fisheries Blog under: Fishing , GWCT Partners
Luke Scott, Fisheries Research Assistant, at the GWCT Salmon & Trout Research Centre got a nice surprise when checking the video footage from the River Frome counter from the 14th February 2023.
13/3/2023 in: Fisheries Blog under: Fishing , GWCT Partners , GWCT in the media
The SAlmonid MAnagement Round the CHannel (SAMARCH) project, set out to deliver new information to improve the protection of our threatened wild salmon and sea trout in estuaries and coastal waters, started in 2017 and now holds its closing conference on the 14th and 15th of March 2023 in Southampton.
26/1/2023 in: Fisheries Blog under: Fishing , GWCT Partners
This week the GWCT Fisheries Team met to celebrate the achievements of Dr Céline Artero and Thomas Lecointre on the SAMARCH project, and wish them good luck for the next stage of their careers.
22/9/2022 in: Fisheries Blog under: Fishing
Jess Brooks joins Rasmus Lauridsen and Luke Scott from the GWCT's fisheries team, catching young salmon and trout in a tributary of the River Frome, an internationally important chalk river.
13/4/2022 in: Fisheries Blog under: Fishing
The 25th March marked the start of the smolt trapping on the River Frome! This is one of the busiest times of the year for the GWCT Fisheries Team.
25/3/2022 in: Fisheries Blog under: Fishing
On 10 March the GWCT Fisheries Team detected the first returning PIT-tagged adult salmon of 2022 passing the antennae on the River Frome at East Stoke.
11/3/2022 in: Fisheries Blog under: Fishing
On Saturday 12th March, GWCT's SAMARCH Fisheries Project Officer, Will Beaumont, will be leading a FREE workshop on "Identifying River Wildlife in Sydling Water".
23/2/2022 in: Fisheries Blog under: Fishing , GWCT Partners
A new paper entitled “Using Food Webs and Metabolic Theory to Monitor, Model, and Manage Atlantic Salmon—A Keystone Species Under Threat“ provides an insightful exploration of how we might combine data and theory to develop new modelling approaches to predict and manage how Atlantic salmon will respond to future changes.
15/2/2022 in: Fisheries Blog under: Fishing
At 6:13am, on the 24th January 2022 the camera attached to our resistivity counter on the flow gauging weir on the main stem of the River Frome at East Stoke, recorded a SEAL ascending the weir.
1/9/2021 in: Fisheries Blog under: Fishing , GWCT in the media
I have seen the scenario many times, a lovely little bubbling brook, with a nice head of small trout, but nothing much over a few ounces in weight. The immediate response for someone who wants to improve the fishing potential is to suggest stocking with some bigger fish.
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