Berwick to host smolt survival conference

Titled ‘From Headwater to Headland - Improving Smolt Survival in Rivers and Estuaries’ the event is being jointly organised by The Atlantic Salmon Trust and The Tweed Foundation.

There is general agreement that a key objective of salmon management should be to maximise the production of healthy wild salmon smolts. This event will explore what this means in practice, reviewing the current state of scientific knowledge about salmon smolts and considering the implications of this for the management of salmon, both in freshwater and in estuaries and coastal waters. It will also seek to identify those areas where managers and others need to know more if they are to increase smolt numbers.

Issues to be discussed will include: the impact of predation in freshwater on smolt numbers; drivers of smolt survival in estuaries and coastal waters; and climate change impacts in rivers and oceans.

Submission process

The organisers welcome proposals for oral presentations and poster submissions.

All abstracts should include the following information in this order:

• Title of the paper;
• Authors' full names with presenter's name highlighted;
• Email address of the presenting author;
• 100-200-word abstract on the paper's content, including its relevance to the conference
• Preference for an oral or poster presentation.

All submissions should be sent to: administrator@atlanticsalmontrust.org before October 16th. Enquiries about prospective submissions should be made to the AST's Research Director ken.whelan@hotmail.com