Scottish Marine and Freshwater Science Volume 5 Number 6: Collation of Available Datasets on Smolt Populations in Scotland to Assess Migration Run Times
This project was undertaken in the context of the National Research and Monitoring Strategy for Diadromous Fish (NRMSD) to investigate the potential for interactions between diadromous fish and wind, wave and tidal renewable energy developments.
5. Conclusion
The Scottish wild fisheries network and further academic institutions were able to collate, and provide a range of datasets on smolt monitoring activities across Scotland. This coverage identified is further complemented by the installations managed by MSS in the River Dee catchment along with the proposed future smolt trap installations by Fisheries Trusts. Due to the support shown by all organisations this project has been able to identify notable regions in which smolt monitoring installations could be added to existing monitoring efforts in order to progress towards a more comprehensive national coverage. The process and results of this project have provided MSS, the SFCC and its members with a foundation on which to discuss and further a co-ordinated approach to smolt monitoring on a national scale.
The SFCC and MSS gratefully acknowledge all organisations and associated biologists for their support in compiling and providing the meta and raw data for this project.
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