Project to probe salmon stock mystery
SEVERAL countries are combining their research in a bid to come up with definitive reasons for the decline of Atlantic salmon. So complex is the issue it needs an international effort, according to Dr Ken Whelan, of the North Atlantic Salmon Conservation Organisation’s (NASCO) research board.
They are studying the poor survival rate of salmon at sea — deaths in some monitored stocks are now twice as high as in the 1970s — and want to gain a clearer understanding of what is happening the salmon before it begins it migration towards fresh water.
