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.

What is SAMARCH?

The Salmonid Management Round the Channel Project (SAMARCH) is a four year research program comprising of four sub-projects that will tag and track salmon in the English Channel estuaries and transitional waters.