Irish researchers hope to uncover reasons for poor survival rates of salmon at sea 

Inland Fisheries Ireland researcher Glen Wightman took part in an EU-funded programme in the east Greenland settlement of Kuummiut — tagging salmon as they returned to their European rivers of origin.

Irish research hopes to understand why there is such a poor survival rate for salmon at sea by tracking the journey of the fish making its way from Greenland to Europe.

Inland Fisheries Ireland (IFI) researcher Glen Wightman joined scientists from the Technical University of Denmark (DTU) in tagging salmon in order to investigate the feeding and return migratory behaviour of young fish as they left the Arctic sea.