Scottish Marine and Freshwater Science Vol 6 No 6: Development of a Model for Predicting Large Scale Spatio-Temporal Variability in Juvenile Fish Abundance from Electrofishing Data

Models of juvenile salmonid abundance are required to inform electrofishing based assessment approaches and potentially as an intermediate step in scaling conservation limits from data rich to data poor catchments. This report describes an approach for mo


Acknowledgements

The authors thank the SFCC and associated fishery trusts in the following areas that provided data used in this report: Annan, Argyll, Ayr, Clyde, Conon, Deveron, Esk, Findhorn, Forth, Galloway, Kyle of Sutherland, Lochaber, Ness and Beauly, Outer Hebrides, Dee, Spey, Tay, Tweed, West Sutherland, Wester Ross, Naver and Nith. The data contributions of SEPA, Alan Youngson and MSS staff are also gratefully acknowledged. We thank Sean Dugan for liaising with trust members and exporting data from the SFCC database.

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