{"id":5052,"date":"2016-07-15T09:06:03","date_gmt":"2016-07-15T08:06:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.gov.scot\/marine-scotland\/?p=5052"},"modified":"2016-08-30T16:49:01","modified_gmt":"2016-08-30T15:49:01","slug":"tracking-atlantic-salmon-and-seatrout-smolts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.gov.scot\/marine-scotland\/2016\/07\/15\/tracking-atlantic-salmon-and-seatrout-smolts\/","title":{"rendered":"Tracking Atlantic Salmon and seatrout smolts"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_5339\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.gov.scot\/marine-scotland\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2016\/07\/Deploying-Acoustic-receivers-2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5339\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5339 lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/blogs.gov.scot\/marine-scotland\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2016\/07\/Deploying-Acoustic-receivers-2-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Deploying Acoustic receivers \" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 300px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 300\/225;\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-5339\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Deploying Acoustic receivers<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Scientists from Marine Scotland\u00a0 are working with the Beatrice Offshore Windfarm Ltd, in association with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gla.ac.uk\/\">Glasgow University<\/a> and local migratory fish interests, to\u00a0monitor Atlantic Salmon smolt (<em>Salmo salar<\/em>) and seatrout smolt (<em>Salmo trutta<\/em>) as they migrate from the Cromarty Firth to their feeding grounds.<\/p>\n<p>As part of a programme, the fish are being tagged in rivers feeding the Cromarty Firth and Marine Scotland has installed 40 acoustic receivers on a line from Burghead to Tarbat Ness to pick up signals from the tagged fish as they swim past.\u00a0Additional receivers in the Cromarty Firth will separately monitor smolt movement and survival in the Firth. The aim of the survey is to determine whether or not the smolts natural migration route indicates that it may bring them into contact with any of the Renewable projects in the Moray Firth.<\/p>\n<p><strong>More Information<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gov.scot\/Topics\/marine\/marineenergy\/Research\">Marine Scotland &#8211; current renewable energy\u00a0research projects<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gov.scot\/Topics\/marine\/science\">Marine Scotland Science<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists from Marine Scotland\u00a0 are working with the Beatrice Offshore Windfarm Ltd, in association with Glasgow University and local migratory fish interests, to\u00a0monitor Atlantic Salmon smolt (Salmo salar) and seatrout smolt (Salmo trutta) as they migrate from the Cromarty Firth to their feeding grounds. 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