A study of brown trout shows there is more genetic variation among the fish than in human populations. Martin O’Grady is probably the country’s foremost expert on brown trout. As senior research officer with Inland Fisheries Ireland, he has spent most of his working life travelling the country, monitoring fish stocks, assessing water quality and lecturing on conservation. To describe him as passionate about the subject misses the point. He once chased several tagged fish down the river Cong in Mayo in a helicopter just to pinpoint their spawning ground. Yet nothing in all this prepared him for the welter of new data which has landed on his desk in recent times…
Irish Times, 31/01/13. Read the full article ‘The trout study that could transform conservation‘.
