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.

Call to action to save our Wild Atlantic Salmon

The Angling Trust talk about their involvement with the MSA - a new collaborative project

The 2018 Fisheries Report from the GWCT

‘Worrying low’ numbers of salmon returning to the River Frome in 2018 according to the latest figures in a GWCT fisheries report.