Milestone Moment for Evidence-led Salmon Management as Paper is Published in the Ecological Informatics Journal
We are thrilled to announce that our new paper on the development of the Missing Salmon Alliance’s SalHub (an online salmon and salmon ecosystem data library) has been published and is now available on the Ecological Informatics journal website here.
The Ecological Informatics journal is an internationally recognised output, and this publication is a significant milestone for the Missing Salmon Alliance’s flagship project, Likely Suspects Framework.
The MSA are leading the process towards addressing a long-standing need for better mobilisation of salmon-related data resources. The new paper and the development of this key online salmon and salmon ecosystem data library provides the starting point from which we will build an accessible, cooperative, shared data platform. SalHub allows researchers to find resources and curates knowledge that is necessary for us to build tools to improve future salmon management.
Graeme Diack, Missing Salmon Alliance Data Specialist for The Likely Suspects Framework and lead author of the paper, explained: “Data discovery is a significant time burden across all scientific disciplines, and salmon ecology is no different. The Salmon Ecosystem Data Hub provides the salmon research and management community with a bespoke online tool that lowers the barriers to metadata publishing and sheds light upon the salmon data landscape.”
Image: A screenshot from the Salmon Ecosystem Data Hub map interface. Markers indicate single data resources (blue) and multiple resources (green and yellow).
Full citation:
Diack, G., Bull, C., Akenhead, S.A., van der Stap, T., Johnson, B.T., Rivot, E., Patin, R., Hernvann, P.-Y., Schubert, A., Bird, T., Saunders, M., W. Crozier. 2022 Enhancing data mobilisation through a centralised data repository for Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar L.): Providing the resources to promote an ecosystem-based management framework. Ecological
Informatics. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoinf.2022.101746
As an Alliance of six organisations, we will build on the existing work of our partners and maximise our impact by taking a coordinated approach and vital action in order to halt and reverse the decline of wild Atlantic salmon.
The goal of the Missing Salmon Alliance is to build an evidence-base to influence national and international decision-makers to regulate activities that adversely impact wild Atlantic salmon.
The Missing Salmon Alliance
The MSA is comprised of the following members:
Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust, Atlantic Salmon Trust, the Angling Trust with Fish Legal, The Rivers Trust and Fisheries Management Scotland.
https://www.missingsalmonalliance.org