A collective of passionate conservationists working together to save Wild Atlantic Salmon.
“We have no time to waste. We need to accelerate the funding and the consequent research. The Missing Salmon Alliance brings together the expertise, the resources and commitment from all the members.”
David Mayhew CBE, Chairman of the Missing Salmon Alliance
Establish the facts
Good decisions require strong evidence. We know that Atlantic salmon face threats from climate change effects, lack of habitat, predation, disease and exploitation and the MSA are committed to investing their resources to establish the facts.
Changing Policy
The MSA uses science to provide the evidence base to facilitate meaningful dialogue with politicians and stakeholders. Our goal is to inform and influence decision making at the highest levels to protect wild atlantic salmon.
Protect our salmon
By combining expertise, coordinating activities, developing effective management solutions, and advocating for change we can help save the wild salmon from extinction. Action must be taken to arrest and reverse the decline in wild salmon populations.
The MSA’s work fully endorses the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals. In particular, it supports the UN’s goals to:
Goal 14 Life below Water
To conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development.
Goal 15 Life on Land
To protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss.
The whole Likely Suspects Framework initiative, for example, is about taking a wider ecosystem-based view of salmon and salmon management across the life cycle, which is entirely in line with the UN’s aspiration for national exclusive economic zones to be managed using ecosystem-based approaches.
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‘Wild Atlantic Salmon in Hot Water’
This booklet reports on the projects the Missing Salmon Alliance partners have been engaged in over the past year.