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.

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.