SALSEA Progress Report

2004 IASRB funds development internationally of a comprehensive, innovative programme of research into the marine phase of salmon - the SALSEA Programme. 2005 Following peer review, the IASRB unanimously endorses SALSEA Programme. Considerable inshore research is ongoing, largely funded by national agencies and their partners. IASRB promotes enhanced co-ordination of this research and seeks to stimulate additional funding. Gear trials off the West of Scotland conducted by Fisheries Research Services Scotland in conjunction with the Atlantic Salmon Trust and the Institute of Marine research Bergen. Read more... 2006 IASRB develops plans for marine surveys. Read more... 2007 Gear trials conducted off the West coast of Ireland by the Marine Institute in conjunction with the Atlantic Salmon Trust. Read more... IASRB supports ICES Workshop to collate and analyse historical salmon tagging information from oceanic areas and seeks to encourage compilation of historical tag recovery information from oceanic areas according to an agreed format. Read more... IASRB funds extended sampling programme of the West Greenland salmon fishery. Read more... 2008 IASRB organises a symposium on population structuring of salmon and a workshop to develop a framework for identification of salmon, funded by the TOTAL Foundation. Read more... SALSEA-Merge project launched. This major €5.5m project involves a series of marine surveys in the North-East Atlantic in 2008 and 2009. Read more... Canada commits CAN$800,000 for twenty-three days of ship time to collect data on Atlantic salmon mortality at sea. Partners include Fisheries and Oceans Canada, the Province of Quebec and the US National Marine Fisheries Service. Read more... Extended sampling programme at West Greenland. Read more... Back to the SALSEA Programme... Photos courtesy of the Atlantic Salmon Federation, Canada; Dr Jens Christian Holst, Norway; Marine Institute, Ireland; Faroese Fisheries Laboratory; The Cancer Genome Atlas; Dr Jens Christian Holst, Norway; Faroese Fisheries Laboratory; Mr David Reddin, Canada.