Today at The International Year of the Salmon Synthesis Symposium
Today (6th October 2022), at the International Year of the Salmon (IYS) Synthesis Symposium, the work of key MSA scientific experts is being presented.
Credit: Eiko Jones Photography, International Year of the Salmon
One of these presentations is centred on the work of Data Specialist, Graeme Diack, whose group synthesis paper ‘Improving Data Mobilization within the Salmosphere’ (Scott Akenhead et al) will be presented by Tom Bird (Pacific, DFO) as part of the Symposium theme ‘Towards a Data driven Future: Progress and Future Requirements for Data Mobilization across the Salmosphere’.
Abstract:
The capacity to turn globally distributed research efforts into informed management actions is limited by a lack of internationally coordinated publication of data for reuse by others. Creating the environment in which these efforts can be shared and understood for the broader research insights they may provide - or Data mobilization (DM) - has been identified as a key step towards the research insights and informed management actions (knowledge mobilization) needed to address the salmon population crisis. To support a transition to this new environment, we propose a set of recommendations aimed at improving the uptake of the already existing and comprehensive guidelines regarding data mobilization best practices. Overall, we call for new policies and progressive cultural adoption that facilitates wide and rapid salmon DM as befits the crisis.
We are thrilled that Graeme Diack and Tom Bird’s work is the opening presentation for the theme and will be expanded into a synthesis paper that will appear in an NPAFC bulletin next year. This material has been created by a group of 17 experts spanning 7 countries with watersheds to the Atlantic and Pacific oceans.
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