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In October, the team convened at NASCO’s headquarters in Edinburgh to present SMOLTrack findings and engage with external experts in salmonid research.

In September 2023, the SMOLTRACK team returned to Eastern Greenland in hopes of catching some nice-looking salmon at their natural feeding grounds.

The SMOLTrack team met in Monção, Portugal on the River Minho in June 2023, to discuss their ongoing work tracking salmon from rivers into the North Atlantic and back.

The smolt trap at River Bush has been equipped with a PIT station, capable of detecting both the smolts on their way to the sea, and also the adults once they return!

Weather and temperature stations

These stations keep track of the environmental conditions in the rivers, and will play an important role in the results of the Work Package 3!

Published results

Marine mortality in the river? Atlantic salmon smolts under high predation pressure in the last kilometres of a river monitored for stock assessment

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Recovered tags

Recovering radio tags allows us to directly link the smolt predation to the predator. In this case, our smolt was eaten by a mammal, most likely an otter. Other common predators are herons, cormorants and bigger fish!

Radio tracking

The SMOLTRACK fieldwork season started and all our partners are out in the field, looking for the tagged Atlantic salmon smolts!