3. Some of our work for the last year…
• Temperature work on freshets
• Where to plant trees for shading the river?
• Salmon smolt tracking project
• Adult Salmon head collection for Otolith analysis
• SALMOVE genetics sampling
• Correcting Ettrick counter data …
10. Gala PIT tag returns
Tagg
ing
Year
Species Period Location Sample
size
Number of
detections
Return
rate (%)
2019 Salmon Spring Gala fish trap 1,021 15 1.5
2021
Sea
Trout
Spring Gala fish trap 283 27 10.3
2022
Sea
Trout
Spring Gala fish trap 610
2022 Salmon Spring Gala fish trap 1,299
2021 Salmon Spring Gala fish trap 200 2 1.0
Joining the club. The term is now ‘Monitored River’
Missing part of the jigsaw is improving the accuracy of the smolt output estimate.
PIT tagging parr in early Autumn this year will investigate whether this is possible
Question of when will ask for access to monitoring network
103 mm Gala trap 7th May 2020, returned 22/10/2022, 69 cm
210 mm Gala trap 29/04/2021, returned 17/10/2022 51 cm