IBIS and the Atlantic Salmon Trust Workshop on Ocean Tracking

Cefas tracking programmes

Long history of work on fish behaviour and migration Past studies on salmonids have included:
movements of adult salmon and sea trout from the sea into freshwater emigration of salmon and sea trout smolts through estuaries to sea coastal tracking of adult salmon, and salmon and sea trout smolts (including long distances)

Current studies in estuaries/coastal/marine waters include:

movements of salmon and sea trout past an estuary barrage utilisation of estuaries/coastal waters by salmon & sea trout (adults and smolts), eel & shad bass tracking with archival tags marine migration of eels (EU-EELIAD project)

Possible future expansion of work on rare/threatened diadromous species in estuaries/coastal waters

IBIS and the Atlantic Salmon Trust Workshop on Ocean Tracking

NASCO / International Atlantic Salmon Research Board

2005 overarching research programme (SALSEA) developed to investigate marine mortality of salmon 2008-present - SALSEA-Merge (EU) & other projects investigated migration, distribution and biology of salmon at sea Dec 2012 IASRB Sub Group on Future Research reviewed what has been done and what remains to be done Concluded: Remains a need to identify the presence, timing and location of survival bottlenecks of salmon for different stages of the marine phase. June 2013 recommendation to IASRB to use acoustic tagging with multiple detector arrays and other (new?) detector technology (wave gliders, RV detection etc) to partition marine mortality of salmon post smolts and adults Sub Group on Telemetry is now getting together to develop this into an outline proposal (with outputs, costs and timelines)