Marine
Tracking Atlantic Salmon and seatrout smolts
July 15, 2016 by Marine Scotland Communications 1 Comment | Category Marine Directorate general, Marine Directorate Science, Marine Renewables
Deploying Acoustic receivers
Scientists from Marine Scotland are working with the Beatrice Offshore Windfarm Ltd, in association with Glasgow University and local migratory fish interests, to monitor Atlantic Salmon smolt (Salmo salar) and seatrout smolt (Salmo trutta) as they migrate from the Cromarty Firth to their feeding grounds.
As part of a programme, the fish are being tagged in rivers feeding the Cromarty Firth and Marine Scotland has installed 40 acoustic receivers on a line from Burghead to Tarbat Ness to pick up signals from the tagged fish as they swim past. Additional receivers in the Cromarty Firth will separately monitor smolt movement and survival in the Firth. The aim of the survey is to determine whether or not the smolts natural migration route indicates that it may bring them into contact with any of the Renewable projects in the Moray Firth.
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I can not wait to see the results.