Record turnout at annual meeting of Scotland’s freshwater fisheries biologists
Looking over Faskally, by Pitlochry, normally the biologists’ meeting venue.
While the amber warnings for snow were in force and the first salmon of the year began running up against the grue in Scotland’s rivers, many of those working to conserve them gathered to share updates from a challenging year and to look forward to the year ahead.
With over 80 attending online as opposed to travelling by car, at least 1000 tonnes of carbon dioxide emissions were saved.
Rivers and Fisheries Trusts, District Salmon Fishery Boards, Government agencies and academics, attended sessions on the pressures facing Atlantic salmon in Scotland, water quality issues and solutions, fish scale reading, and European eel conservation.
The event is designed to bring together a wide range of people who work across Scotland’s rivers and lochs to gather evidence to understand the issues facing native fishes and to inform conservation efforts.
Read more about the meeting highlights here
As an Alliance of five 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