The Missing Salmon Alliance is excited to be the lead partner in the proposal to bring “Salmon School” to COP26.

Pledge sought from Scottish election candidates to help save our wild salmon

Wild Atlantic Salmon in Hot Water

‘Wild Atlantic Salmon in Hot Water’ reports on the projects the Missing Salmon Alliance partners have been engaged in over the past year

In support of Jack Perks’ Britain’s Hidden Fishes crowdfunding campaign

The Atlantic Salmon Trust prepare for 2021’s launch of two ground breaking research projects

Fish Legal and Angling Trust drag Defra and EA back to High Court

With state of our rivers very much in the public eye since lockdown began and cuts to environmental watchdogs, Fish Legal, Angling Trust and its partner WWF have gone back to court.

David Profumo will be reading a world exclusive from his forthcoming book ‘The Lightning Thread: Fishological Moments and The Pursuit of Paradise’ on March 18th in aid of the Missing Salmon Alliance

Time Running Out for Freshwater Fish

Record turnout at annual meeting of Scotland’s freshwater fisheries biologists

SAMARCH Newsletter

The MSA’s work fully endorses the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals

The UN has 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), which are an urgent call for action by all countries - developed and developing - in a global partnership. The MSA’s work fully endorses the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals.

Charles Rangeley-Wilson reads from Silver Shoals in aid of the Missing Salmon Alliance

In his book Silver Shoals he sets out on a journey around the British Isles tracing the histories of our most iconic fish and the fishermen who catch them and care for their habitats.

Missing Salmon Alliance Goes from Strength to Strength as Two New Organisations Join

The Missing Salmon Alliance is delighted to welcome two new members, Fisheries Management Scotland and The Rivers Trust.

A good year for young salmon gives hope on the River Frome

The number of young salmon leaving Dorset’s River Frome this year to start their marine journey was the highest for eight years, offering hope for the globally threatened species. Monitoring by the Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust (GWCT) has shown that more than 13,000 smolts - young salmon ready to migrate to the sea for the first time – passed our monitoring station in the river this spring, 40% higher than the 10-year average for the river.

The Likely Suspects Framework for Atlantic salmon: Workshop to develop a project roadmap

For the Missing Salmon Alliance to take the lead in delivering its ambitious Likely Suspects Framework (LSF) programme (see further reading), a clear plan is needed detailing the necessary steps to align the short-term work plan with other initiatives, and to focus MSA resources required. Producing a “project roadmap” for the LSF was the focus of our most recent workshop on 28th May 2020 with an invited panel of 18 international experts from 8 countries.

A New Request for Information on Wild Atlantic Salmon Research Projects

We are conducting a review of current and planned Atlantic salmon research activity to provide focus and identify knowledge gaps. We’d really like to hear from you if you are involved in a research project (current or planned) on wild Atlantic salmon , or where salmon relevant research may comprise a component of a bigger project , or feature in a work package.

Missing Salmon Alliance Launch New Website and Likely Suspects Framework as Flagship Project on World Fish Migration Day

To coincide with World Fish Migration Day on the 24th October 2020, the Missing Salmon Alliance (MSA) launches its new website, detailing the Likely Suspects Framework as the organisation’s flagship project

Missing Salmon Alliance supports no more new hydropower in Europe

Hydropower – clean, green and sustainable? You’d have thought so, but you’d be wrong. That is why the MSA has joined with organisations from across Europe in supporting a manifesto that challenges the assumption that in river hydropower is a clean, green, sustainable way of generating power with little or no consequences.

Massive Decline in Migratory Freshwater Fish Populations Could Threaten Livelihoods of Millions, Warns New Report

Globally, monitored populations of migratory freshwater fish have declined by an average of 76% between 1970 and 2016.

The biggest drivers of population decline are habitat degradation, alteration and loss, and over-exploitation. All of these are inextricably linked to human use and impact.

The Moray Firth Tracking Project

It’s time to solve the mystery of our missing salmon.

Somewhere on their journey, wild salmon numbers are being decimated. For every 100 salmon that leave our rivers for the sea, less than 5 return - a decline of nearly 70% in just 25 years.