Fisheries Blog

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.

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".

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.

At 6:13am, on the 24^th 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.

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.

Every autumn we use PIT tags to mark juvenile salmon, which are detected at East Stoke when they go to sea as smolts and when they return as adults. 2021's first two PIT-tagged two-sea-winter salmon have been detected as they pass our floating PIT antennae:

The latest SAMARCH Project newsletter has just been published and is now available to download.

Watch this short video featuring trout and salmon passing through the GWCT Fisheries counter on the River Frome in Dorset.

This morning the first PIT-tagged adult of the year returned to the River Frome. In fact, the first two tagged adult salmon were detected within five minutes of each other at East Stoke!