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You two gonna buy a piece of land with river on it and restore the river to a wetland / natural river processes in it and help in restoring our watercourses and fish populations and diversity of fish (and the rest of the wildlife!). Come on you two get on it. Real project to get stuck in to. Do it for your kids. For the next generations

More needs to be done in habitat restoration and management of watercourses all over the UK. And the world. Let’s all educate and try help out our local councils and volunteer ptojects and make a change for the good (and help natural flood management at the same time) saving money as well as habitats and wildlife and the diversity of it all

The British scientific community seem to be going in the right direction however if they do not take command of top down predation as the Danes and other Nordic leading experts have they are just wasting capital and recourses. This is kinda embarrassing to watch play out as over 17 catchments within the UK have already lost significant numbers of indicator and buffer spp.

Brilliant and inspirational...great work...thanks

Great keep up the good work. I we look after them they will take care of us big time. "The time has come to destroy them (people) that have destroyed the earth" oh these people in power in this babylon empire think they just push the little people around. This fallen country of UK and US is going under the sea. Flee into the mountains my saints before 57 weeks are fulfilled from now. and dont waste time and energy to worship the antichrist King William V get ure exodus bag and flee to the mountains for tevet 14th full moon, even to here in Snowdonia. in Jesus mighty name, Amen,

what a pathetic effort from one of the wealthiest landowners in Scotland. A few small cages with trees while the watersheds are an ecological desert from Balmoral to bachnagairn owned by the king. You can walk for miles and never see a nesting bird anywhere. land is deer wrecked.

Great work. Get the habitat right for the river's apex predator and so many other benefits accrue. I'll bet the residents of Banchory and Aboyne appreciate those leaky dams when the storms hit!

If the landowners had bothered to listen to their geography teachers in the early 1980’s they would have done something about these issues then. By now they would have healthy rivers and less flooding of towns and villages down stream. Lots more salmon , less deer and sheep in the watershed areas. Hundreds of millions of taxpayers money could then be being spent on something else rather then subsidising grand estates.

I been living and fishing in west coast british columbia the last 5 years. salmon and steelhead returns had been bad the last few years, and looked worrying. last year salmon returns hit records. this year steelhead and massive returns. So there is hope. However they take water quality seriously, proper treatment plants, ensuring deforestation is kept back from the rivers edge. The caddis, sedge, mayfly, mosquito, ect hatches are absolutley insane. Billions and billions. Lots of trees and places to shelter and hide. I love the work ye are doing keep it up

Where’s the beavers?

Sounds interesting, here in my home country of Finland we mainly put them in as fertilized eggs inside a cardboard boxes into the streams, as that gives you the proper natural start-up and natural selection even if it's fish farm produced eggs. Seems to work very well if there is no issues like in Northern Norway where most of the salmon never make it back from the sea and stocks are dwindling due to low returns.

I believe that complex habitats are important as well. So lots of surrounding trees and bushes, some fallen into the water, to create lots of eddies, nooks, crannies, etc. Lots of bends and shallows and overhangs. There are lots of chalk stream restoration videos of YT showing great work being done to return rivers back to their original state before man intervened. These will enable the fish to hide from totebal1409’s ‘bad’ fish-eating birds! Dare I say beaver’s could create such a complex and diverse habitat mosaic if appropriate for the area, once there are some trees for them to coppice of course. Thanks for the production 🤩

Fantastic video with great suggestions! I am in Australia but all of the same methods would work perfectly here too :)

Well done. This is good stuff.

Definitely the right way to do it! Frist you need to help the river and when conditions are right, you can start re-planting salmon with egg-boxes so natural selection can work it's wonders. Then the biggest thing would be reducing catch in the ocean, which is the hardest part. As we not only fish for the salmon themselves in the ocean, but also their main food fishes, herring and other small fish, which equals less food for salmon in the ocean.

Are leaky dams not what beavers create, would this be a plan for the future?

Good work🙏🫡 these video’s give me hope for the future

How many otter does the Dee system have?

This is so personal to me as I have fished the Dee for 35 years. And I am so thankful to these wonderful people, working with the science we now understand, to regenerate the environment and help the success of the salmon and sea trout within the river.

Pinks bring into the streams huge amounts of nutrients. Now you’ve had another odd year run. Eggs to eat. Direct eating of carcasses by juveniles. Indirect, by feeding macro invertebrates, that are consumed by Atlantic salmon juveniles. Pink salmon smolts eaten on way to sea. How much have Atlantic salmon populations increased as result?

Its all well and good putting the spotlight on a top tier river like the deveron in Scotland but its the smaller rivers in Wales and England which need the help and funding

Why no mention of salmon farms or fish eating birds? Also, the rivers will never be clean if SEPA don't crack down on Scottish Water polluting our rivers with sewage. From what I've read, on my local river only about 50% of the smolts tagged make it to the estuary, what's the biggest problem for these smolts? Fish eating birds, but as I said, no mention of them.😢

Very interesting presentations and pretty clear to a layman such as myself. I'm glad at least SOMETHING is being attempted; here in Wales we have Natural Resources Wales and are obliged to pay the Rod- licence. In return we are told that stocking of migratory fish is forbidden- even to my local club who had converted an old riverside mill into a hatchery with huge effort and used to stock salmon from fish taken from the river alongside. No longer. I now do my salmon fishing in Northumberland or Scotland. Still, NRW tell us they are 'monitoring' the situation; I could save them the bother. Sadly I can see no prospect that the Scottish assembly will permit the culling of furry cuddly seals to assist the 'rich, tweed-wearing salmon fishermen' . In-river predation here and in Weardale and a Tweed tributary I frequent has reached farcical proportions with fish-eating ducks and cormorants running rampant and a licensing scheme to enable any culling of them so ludicrous as to be beyond parody. Anyway, I wish you all the best.

Pioneers....

Climate change is a huge hoax and decling salmon numbers aint exactly happening everywhere - Let me explain,rivers such as tees mersey yorkshire ouse and all its tribs such as aire don derwent etc were once devoid of salmon this is also true of the northumbrian tyne system ok it had fish but the river was grossly polluted in newcastle on tyne....fast forward to today and all the mentioned rivers and more now have their salmon back but we will concentrate on the yorkshire don and aire - i Leeds 25 years ago the water quality of the aire was so bad that they was no fish in leeds city centre on the aire don was also the same in a poor state....now Leeds boast some hellish fish populations and salmon are now fast populating the river aire and calder - now if some one had of said theys salmon in the yorkshire don i would have asked what they had been smoking....4 seasons back i get a call from a mate who was working in the power station sheffield said go look at the weir side of southbound M1 motorway when i got there water was up but still had that dirty polluted smell but the amount of fish trying to get over the weir was incredible as good as any of the top north east rivers (back end run) now mersey irwell goyt also have salmon again not exactly a clean tidal stretch...so how come salmon seem to be making a dramatic come back in rivers that are still suffering from pollutants yet we are TOLD that salmon are struggling on rivers that have either had zero pollution or very little ? goes agaiusnt the grain of salmon as we are told salmon need clean oxygenated waters.....anyways dont trust trusts they not to be trusted and dont trust orgs that make claims about fake climate change---- if salmonm can come back to rivers that have been devoid for hundredfs of years all on their own then these so called trusts wont get funded and would cease to exists remember this if theys no problems then they dont need a solution = no funding and all trusts orgs charities all skim from donations

There are two other species with multiple, failed, introduction efforts on the NE Pacific Coast. Both the British Columbian provincial and Canadian federal fisheries made multiple efforts to introduce Atlantic salmon. Several models of life stage efforts were made, several quite large. All failed. One very large plant produced a couple spawning pairs in one river, never to repeat. The other was lobster. Again, lots of alternatives attempted, included purchasing large quantities of adults, and releasing as a group. Wandered off towards deeper water and never seen again.

North-south size difference, date of entering stream? Are the pinks entering streams to the south weeks earlier? At least coho make a large part of their growth in last couple months. Also number of eggs, and depth of redd, meaning flood resistance, goes up with size. Bigger fish in 2021 than 2019. Did you see an ever bigger population rise in 2023?

Humbling and encouraging to see hopefully justice will be done giving all unprosecuted polluters of our Rivers. ✊ stand together fight as one

In short, remove the darn old dams if there's no use to them, they're one of the major reasons why our migratory fish species are in crisis. :)

End harmful polluting salmon farming in West coast sea lochs, where smolts traditionally spent their first year at sea feeding; parasites, toxic chemicals and effluent pollution kill millions of wild smolts every year.

What a wonderful, informative film. Well done to Mark, Jim, Dom & all the team. All of us who want to save the Atlantic salmon species should donate something to the AST however large or small to keep this great work going.

Lovely and reassuring to watch this...and some highly relevant issues Best endeavours from a fellow salmon angler( Lune Eden Tweed Welsh Dee Tyne)Never made it to the Deveron ...(only the Don when I was at Uni in Aberdeen) Heres to a decent spawning for 2023 and cool times in 2024 for the parr for salmo salar across the UK...and for the future... Simon Artley Manchester

Really good information and explains it well.

Great work guys !

Robbie Douglas-Miller 'protecting' Britain's wildlife, what a bunch of disgusting clowns you all are.

Excellent and valuable work that hopefully will provide quantitative data and thus remove emotions and opinions. May I ask why from your video that there appeared to be no receivers deployed within the Clyde Estuary please? The Lomond system is one of the largest salmon fisheries in Scotland in terms of area and includes the River Endrick which has SAC protection. Hence my question. The Clyde Estuary waters are also subject to increasing applications and pressures from Marine Aquaculture operations.

Here in America, we use them as fertilizer in addition to eating them..

Research its leading to nothing

Excellent work, now get smolt release projects going NOW, simply more smolts more salmon. Yes deal with pinch points, but do smolt release. They don't predate food of river born parr and I have been invoved with this for the last 25 years in Iceland. Do not release parr, they must have abated feeding and silvererd.

Important key learnings. However the simple fact is you need to harvest the genetics and bring on the fish to smolt in vastly greater numbers, at which point they can be released into the river and not presure natural spawning or food in the catchment.

Load of shite more likely studied to extinction all about the cash trail

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A big thank you to the Atlantic Salmon Trust for publishing these presentations to the general public.

Great to see such focused research going on. Well done to all concerned.

Smolts caught with mackerel in your trawls. Increase in mackerel population and predation in these areas ?

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The problem is the crown estate no one mentions the elephant in the room commercial salmon farming by Norwegian companies that are not allowed to operate the way the work in Scotland the smolts have to swim through a miasma of parasites and pestilence to get to the open ocean and the decline can be mapped as the industry has grown now our biggest food exports but it's the most toxic thing on a plate

Hmmm! I thought that much of this information was readily available 20 years ago & that the health of our inland seas during this period were a major concern for smolt migration due to the increasing number of aquaculture sights in our sea lochs, now infested with sea lice, which are controlled by localised chemical dispersion, affecting smolt mortality & marine habitat. How many smolts reach their destination?