AT a meeting of the Pelagic Regional Advisory Council (Prac) in Amsterdam recently, Prof Ken Whelan, research director of Atlantic Salmon Trust, asked representatives of the EU’s pelagic fleets to work closely with salmon scientists to learn more about the life of salmon in the ocean.
“Over the past 20 years, an increasing number of salmon are dying during their oceanic feeding migration and we don’t yet fully understand why”, he said.
Recent research carried out under the EU-funded Salsea Merge programme showed that during part of their lifecycle, salmon are pelagic fish, swimming alongside commercially-fished species such as herring, mackerel and blue whiting…..
Irish Times. 19/11/2012. Read the article ‘Much-needed salmon migration study need not cost a lot’
