{"id":6777,"date":"2017-06-05T14:39:51","date_gmt":"2017-06-05T13:39:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.gov.scot\/marine-scotland\/?p=6777"},"modified":"2019-04-04T11:46:20","modified_gmt":"2019-04-04T10:46:20","slug":"freshwater-fisheries-open-day-success","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.gov.scot\/marine-scotland\/2017\/06\/05\/freshwater-fisheries-open-day-success\/","title":{"rendered":"Freshwater Fisheries Open Day a success"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.gov.scot\/marine-scotland\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2017\/06\/Open-Day.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-6778 lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/blogs.gov.scot\/marine-scotland\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2017\/06\/Open-Day-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Reading scales\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.gov.scot\/marine-scotland\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2017\/06\/Open-Day-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.gov.scot\/marine-scotland\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2017\/06\/Open-Day-560x420.jpg 560w, https:\/\/blogs.gov.scot\/marine-scotland\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2017\/06\/Open-Day.jpg 640w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 300px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 300\/225;\" \/><\/a>On 13th May, colleagues from the Freshwater Fisheries laboratory at Faskally in Pitlochry held an Open Day at the Atholl Palace Hotel in Pitlochry.<\/p>\n<p>The day included and series of six talks that were held in the\u00a0morning and afternoon, with more than 30 posters and films on show throughout the day.\u00a0There were also practical exhibits including plankton from our outstation in Shieldaig, using ultrasound to determine the gender\u00a0of\u00a0trout, invertebrate identification, river mapping and fish scale reading.<\/p>\n<p>The art of capturing trout by electrofishing was demonstrated in the Japanese Garden and radio tracking techniques were shown using dummy fish hidden among the trees. Genetics was simplified to a double helix of jelly babies and cocktail sticks and\u00a0Bernie Martin\u2019s stunning new film of the salmon life cycle (7 years in the making) was shown every hour followed by lively question sessions with topics ranging from the technicalities of filming hatching fish to the evolutionary history of migration in salmon, and much in between.<\/p>\n<p>Visitors included school children (entertained by custom-designed quizzes) anglers, amateur naturalists, fisheries managers, teachers, professional scientists and those others with a curiosity in what happens in the Lab by the loch. John Swinney, Deputy First Minister\u00a0and the Cabinet Secretary for Education and Skills, and many other attendees enthused about their visits, and some who had come for an hour stayed for much of the day.<\/p>\n<p>Photos from the day have been turned in to a short storyboard and more pictures are available on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/marinescotland\/albums\/72157680822209432\">Marine Scotland\u00a0Flickr site<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Further Information<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gov.scot\/Topics\/marine\/Salmon-Trout-Coarse\/Freshwater\">Marine Scotland Freshwater Fisheries science<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/marinescotland\/albums\/72157680822209432\">Marine Scotland Flickr site<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On 13th May, colleagues from the Freshwater Fisheries laboratory at Faskally in Pitlochry held an Open Day at the Atholl Palace Hotel in Pitlochry. 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