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A Tweed Foundation Seminar A FREE evening seminar exploring new and recent discoveries about Tweed’s Sea-‐trout. The Tweed
Foundation has just concluded work in an international partnership study called “Living North Sea”, working to further our understanding of Sea-‐trout movement and stock components. The Seminar will provide detail
on what the various studies have found out, and how it will help in future management.
7.00pm on Wednesday 27th March 2013
Ednam House Hotel, Bridge Street, Kelso
Secrets of the Sea-‐trout
Smolt Tracking Migration at Sea Life Histories Genetics Trapping Catches
19.00 – 19.05 Chairman Introduction Marcus Walters
Project Manager, The Moray Firth Trout Initiative
19.05 – 19.20 Dr Ronald Campbell
Tweed Foundation Biologist Sea-‐trout: What they Are, Their Geography & Their History On Tweed What makes a Sea-‐trout?; Rod & Net catch records; Relationships with other East Coast populations
19.20 – 19.35 Kenneth Galt
Tweed Foundation Trout & Grayling Biologist
Tweed Sea-‐trout At Home Trapping of spawning runs; Surveys of juveniles; Isotopes testing to determine parentage of trout fry
19.35 – 19.50 Niall Gauld
PhD student with Tweed Foundation & Durham University
Getting Down To Sea Acoustic tracking of Sea-‐trout smolts down the Tweed
19.50 – 20.05 Dr Ronald Campbell Where Do Tweed Sea-‐trout Go To Sea?
Migrations around the North Sea 20.05 – 20.20 Niall Gauld Getting Back Up The Tweed
Acoustic tracking of Sea-‐trout up the Tweed; comparisons with Salmon; Exploitation rates by anglers
20.20 – 20.35 James Hunt
Tweed Foundation Assistant Biologist
Counting Tweed Sea-‐trout Fish counter results from the Ettrick, Gala & Whiteadder; video clips of Sea-‐trout passing through the counters
20.35 – 20.45 Barry Wright
Tweed Foundation Scale Reader Working Out The Life Histories Of Tweed Sea-‐trout Scale reading
20.45 – 21.00 Dr Ronald Campbell The Biggest & The Smallest
The Whitling of the Till & the specimen Sea-‐trout of the Tweed
P R O G R A M M E
I N F O R M A T I O N
www.tweedfoundation.org.uk