Campaign For The Protection Of Welsh Fisheries

Website: http://www.celticseatrout.com/about/programme.htm
Introduction
The Celtic Sea Trout Project (CSTP) is a European Union, Interreg IVA-funded, Ireland-Wales collaborative project on the status, distribution, genetics and ecology of sea trout around the Irish Sea. This note briefly outlines progress in 2011 for the many helpers and participants in angling clubs, river trusts and other organisations.  More detailed technical accounts [...]

Introduction
The Celtic Sea Trout Project (CSTP) is a European Union, Interreg IV-funded, Ireland-Wales collaborative project looking into the status, distribution, genetics and ecology of sea trout around the Irish Sea (http://www.celticseatrout.com/about/programme.htm). This note briefly outlines progress in 2010 for the many helpers and participants in angling clubs, river trusts and other organisations.  More detailed technical [...]

Celtic Sea Trout Project scale sampling update and reminder August 2011

Dear all,
I hope you are having  a good sea trout season and that you might have found time for some scale sampling.  We have had a few back, so thank you to all who have sent in samples. As last year we are expecting that [...]

Thank you very much for your two messages. They raise nicely a concern that I know troubles many anglers who are concerned about stocks, but see the value in understanding more about how sea trout populations work so that they can be protected better in the future.  It is a dilemma.
I take a pragmatic line [...]

The CSTP sampling  (www.celticseatrout.com) is now in full swing and will continue for a further two years.  Fish samples are coming in from many sources; but an important part of the project requires sea trout scales and basic measurements to be collected from selected rivers.  This is being done by angler volunteers because angling  is [...]

Dear all,
I hope you are all thriving and making contact with our silvery friends (no, not smelt!).
I’m sending a group e-mail, although  I know that you have  had different levels of contact and details from me in the past, through meetings etc.  Apologies if this repeats anything, I’m trying to bring everyone up to same [...]