What do salmon managers need to help support their work on saving wild salmon?
Salmon management is frequently impeded by poor access to information. This can limit the development of appropriate responses to address the challenges posed by declining salmon stocks. One of the aims of the MSA Likely Suspects programme is to develop new management support tools to improve access to information and help decision-making. These tools aim to provide new salmon survival information , forecasts of changes in population status and future scenario-testing, allowing managers to evaluate how their actions may potentially affect salmon populations.
As part of this process a short online workshop was hosted by the team in June 2021 with 20 river and salmon managers from across the UK. The workshop captured managers views on their need for information, and on their priorities in relation to developing new support tools. The information from this workshop will be of great importance in ensuring that future development of the Likely Suspects Framework is in line with the interests , and needs of salmon managers. The full report can be accessed 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