Justin McCarthy reports from the Atlantic Salmon Reserve where, incredibly, it's now less than two months before the staff open up the camps for the start of the 2015 season. Read More
Professor Ken Whelan, AST’s Director of Research, has asked the representatives of the EU’s pelagic fleets to work closely with salmon scientists to learn more about the life of salmon (the ‘canary of the North Atlantic’) in the ocean, when he addressed Friday’s (Oct 5, 2012) meeting of the Pelagic Regional Advisory Council, held in Amsterdam. Read More
After many months of deliberation and thinking through the work being done by other organisation within the wild salmonids sector, the Atlantic Salmon Trust has decided that there are some serious gaps in knowledge in the coastal and marine stages of the lives of our salmon and sea trout. This has led to a new policy being outlined changing the focus of their work.
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'Lost at Sea' is an important new film about the declining abundance of wild Atlantic salmon. Read More
Strong winds and heavy seas are being blamed for damage that allowed some 155,000 salmon to escape from Meridian Salmon Group’s fish farm in Shetland report the BBC.
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BREAD PUNCH Punched bread doesn’t work everywhere, but when you do find a venue that responds to it, this simple... Read More
It was another week of great friends, interesting weather and good sized salmon here on the north coast! Although we started out again with bright sunny skies and very warm temperatures of 25+ degrees C, by early week there was thunder and lightning followed by heavy rains and the odd snow flurry. Read More
Robbie Douglas Miller explains why the AST are so concerned about salmon and how that has focused the AST on 3... Read More
Bidding is now open on some incredible lots in the 2014 Atlantic Salmon Trust auction
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Between September and the end of the year, the AST team will be updating their supporters in Northumberland, Northern Ireland and London with the results of the most exciting work in which the AST has ever been involved. New data about the lives of wild Atlantic salmon and sea trout at sea has now become available. Read More
Salmon Junkies (tag: 'We are hooked!') are renowned for not just a great name but also for the groups of adrenaline-fuelled salmon fishers they send out over the wilds of the southern Kola Peninsula to fish the Umba river and these days too, the upper Varzuga (or Grand Varzuga as they call it). Now it's September their focus is firmly on the River Umba from where their first autumn report arrives via Kåre Lundquist.. Read More
Dave Coster – Forgotten Floats BODIED WAGGLERS Browsing through the vintage float sets on the Thomas Turner website brought back... Read More
Angler Dotty Ballantyne, previous recipient of the IGFA’s Lifetime Achievement Award, recently added another impressive world record to her angling... Read More
While fly fishing off the southern coast of Chile on March 28th, American angler Bruce Jackson potentially set the new... Read More
Fancy a trip to one of the best fishing destinations on the British Isles? Among the hundreds of lots on offer is fishing on the rivers Tay, Spey, Dee and Tweed in Scotland, the Test, Itchen, N Tyne and Camel in England, the E Cleddau and Usk in Wales and the Drowes and Mourne in Ireland. Read More
Melfort Campbell and Tony Andrews, the Atlantic Salmon Trust's Chairman and CEO, recently visited New Brunswick, discussing alternatives to the destructive and unsustainable open cage method of salmon farming currently used in Scotland and Canada. Details will be released soon of the outcome of their discussions. Read More
Robbie Douglas Miller, newly elected Chairman of the AST board, introduces himself and some thoughts on the challenges that lie ahead for the wild Atlantic salmon and sea trout. Read More
Well, my great friend Simon spent yesterday getting me in part conversant with my Facebook account that I had let... Read More
Dave Coster – My Way with Angling Myths BREAKING BREAD A message that was drilled into me when I first... Read More
POWERHOUSE SWIMS Staythorpe power station at Farndon is a significant landmark on the River Trent in the Newark area, only... Read More
On October 5, 2012, President Obama signed the Billfish Conservation Act into law, effectively banning the importation of all billfish into the continental United States. The signing marks the culmination of a united undertaking by a diverse coalition of angling and conservation organizations working in cooperation with a bipartisan group of congressional champions. Read More