IFM Tagging and Telemetry Workshop

Royal Armouries.

Leeds, England

22nd – 23rd July 2014

Programme

   

 

 

 

The  workshop  is  supported  by:  

   

 

 

   

 

 

Tuesday July 22nd 9.00 – 17.00

9.00 – 9.30 Registration and refreshments

9.30 – 11.10 Session 1. Tracking of Migratory Fish

Session Chair: TBC

9.30 Paul Coulson, IFM

Announcements and opening remarks

9.40

Ken Whelan, Atlantic Salmon Trust

Ocean Tracking of Salmon – Update on AST / IBIS Workshop and Progress to Date

10.00 Alan Walker, Cefas

Application of 2-d tracking via an acoustic receiver array to determine the influence of environmental parameters on diurnal and seasonal activity and home range of yellow-stage European eel (Anguilla anguilla) in a lake.

10.20 Stephen Gregory, Game and Wildlife Conservation Trust

Towards a “standard” salmon stock monitoring programme: examples from the Frome (Dorset, UK) and Scorff (Brittany, France)

10.40 Ted Potter, NASCO

Monitoring of salmon migration routes and estimating stage and area specific mortality rates during the marine phase of their lifecycle.

11.00 Further Discussions and Questions

11.10

Coffee

11.40 – 13.20 Session 2 Project Planning

Session Chair: Jim Gregory. (Environment Agency/IFM)

11.40 VEMCO

Technolgy Update

11.50 Richard Noble, University of Hull

Interpreting the fates of tagged fish in a telemetry study of upstream migrating salmonids using both a fixed acoustic 2D tracking system and additional mobile hydrophones – implications for determining passage success metrics

12.10 Emma Washburn, Environment Agency

The use of tagging and telemetry techniques to measure fish pass efficiencies: Review and recommendations.

12.30 Peter Walker, Apem Ltd

The use of PIT tags to evaluate the effect of retrofitted Hurn baffles on the pass-ability of a flat-v gauging weir

 

12.50

Ian Wellby, Blueroof Ltd & Andy Hinds, Fishtrack Ltd

The process of capture, handling and tag insertion for fish that will be used for monitoring projects.

13.10 Further Discussions and Questions

13.20

Lunch

 

14.00 – 17.00

Visit to Rodley Nature Reserve on the River Aire to look at the project to assess the effectiveness of the fish pass. This is a great opportunity to visit a wetland nature reserve close to the centre of a major city.

There will be presentations from those involved in the project as well as an opportunity to visit the river and see the work first hand.

 

Wednesday July 23rd 9.00 – 15.20

9.00 – 10.40 Session 3.Monitoring the Behaviour of Adult Fish

Session Chair: TBC

9.00 Paul Coulson, IFM Announcements and opening remarks

9.10 Jonathan Bolland, University of Hull

Micro-scale behaviour of adult salmonids downstream of a fish pass using an acoustic tracking system

9.30 James Barry, University of Glasgow

Quantifying the movement and habitat use of European eel Anguilla anguilla in a lake system using acoustic telemetry.

09.50 Matthew Newton, SCENE

Examination of the Fine Scale Behavioural Response of Atlantic Salmon (Salmo salar .L) to a Small, Complex Weir using Radio Telemetry

10.10 Lucy Priviteria, Cefas

Effects of silver eel exposure to a pesticide mixture on their physiology and downstream migration.

10.30

Further Discussions and Questions

10.40

Coffee

11.10 – 13.00 Session 3 Cont. Monitoring the Behaviour of Adult Fish

Session Chair: TBC

11.10 Oregon RFID Technology Update

11.20 Marie Taylor, University of Hull

Observations of brown trout (Salmo trutta) activity downstream of reservoirs in Yorkshire, including during freshet releases

11.40 Sean Rooney, Inland Fisheries Ireland

Use of acoustic telemetry to monitor behaviour during the upriver spawning migration of a diadromous fish, the twaite shad (Alosa fallax).

12.00 Niall Gauld, Tweed Foundation

Monitoring the interspecific differences in spawning location and migratory behaviour in late run Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) and Sea trout (Salmo trutta) on the River Tweed.

12.20 Chris Gardner, Ahern Ecology

The behaviour and ecology of adult common bream Abramis brama (L.) to inform management and rehabilitation strategies for the lower River Witham in order to meet good ecological potential/status under the Water Framework Directive (2000/60/EEC)

12.40 Further Discussions and Questions

 

13.00

Lunch

14.00 – 15.20 Session 4. Juvenile Fish and other Species

Session Chair: TBC

14.00 Thelma Biotel

Technology Update

14.10 Andrew Moore,

Cefas

The impact of a small hydropower scheme on the migratory behaviour of Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar L.) and sea trout (Salmo trutta L.) smolts in the River Frome, southern England.

14.30

Andy Hindes, Fishtrack Ltd

Should I Stay or Should I Go": Residency and migrancy of stocked juvenile Barbel in an English chalk river. A Technological approach

14.50 Daniel Skerritt,

University of Newcastle

Investigating European lobster (Homarus gammarus) movement & habitat utilisation using acoustic telemetry.

15.10

Further discussion, workshop conclusions and recommendations

15.20 CONFERENCE CLOSE