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Kielder Water & Forest Park | Kielder | Northumberland | NE48 1HX. | Send Email. Open daily 10am - 4pm to end of September. The incredible and unique life cycle of the salmon starts here! The Environment Agency’s Salmon centre is the largest conservation Salmon hatchery in England and Wales.
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Hatchery NameLocationArizonaPennsylvaniaSouth CarolinaMassachusettshatchery would have an adverse effect on wild fish populations. There is no hard evidence which points to a successful enhancement hatchery operation in the UK, indeed, the body of evidence today means stocking practices are increasingly and widely challenged. Marine Scotland Wild Atlantic Salmon Stocking Policy was published in May 2019. It states
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- Introduction and background
- Impact and Effectiveness of salmon stocking
- Implications for rivers designated under Habitats Directive
- Salmon stocking and consistency with the Ecosystem Approach and IUCN Guidance.
- Conclusions
- The Recommendations made as a result of this review are:
- Reservoir mitigation programmes
- Effectiveness of salmon stocking in Wales
- Salmon stocking and rivers designated as Special Areas of Conservation under the Habitats Directive.
- Conclusions regarding impact and effectiveness of salmon stocking
- Salmon Stocking – Wider policy context
- Ecosystem Approach and salmon stocking
- Comparison of stocking costs with private service providers.
- Discussion and Recommendations
Natural Resources Wales has inherited four fish hatchery units from one of its predecessor bodies, the Environment Agency. Two of those hatchery units are currently not operational (Mawddach, which is temporarily mothballed pending this review, and Clywedog which was mothballed 12 months ago) and two are operational (Cynrig and Maerdy). The two ope...
5 The current scientific literature regarding both the effectiveness and impacts of stocking salmon provides evidence that stocking salmon from hatchery reared fish can potentially have several negative impacts. There is increasing and compelling peer-reviewed evidence that:- hatchery reared fish have lower survival to adulthood than wild fish of t...
7 The scientific evidence for potential impacts could have significant consequences for salmon stocking on rivers designated as Special Areas of Conservation under the Habitats Directive, including the Rivers Dee, Wye, Teifi, Tywi, and Cleddau. This is relevant for two reasons. Firstly, the higher level of protection from impact afforded to those s...
8 Restoration stocking after extinction is a valid method of reintroducing a population to available habitat, and is consistent with an Ecosystem Approach. This approach has been used successfully on rivers in Wales, including the Taff. However, the review concludes that mitigation and enhancement salmon stocking are inconsistent with the Eco...
12 From the evidence available, the review concludes that on-going mitigation and enhancement salmon stocking deliver relatively poor outcomes for NRW and salmon populations, particularly given the lack of evidence for effectiveness and the evidence for potential impacts to wild salmon population fitness and productivity. These conclusions regardin...
NRW should bring all our own on-going mitigation, population re-inforcement and enhancement salmon stocking in Wales to an end, This includes all third party stocking on rivers designated under the Habitats Directive for their wild salmon populations. A further component of this includes the development of a realistic and practical timetable for br...
Dee – Celyn (NRW). (Maerdy) Wye – Elan (NRW). (Cynrig) Tywi – Brianne (DCWW/NRW) (Private provider of stock). Cleddau - Llysyfran (DCWW/NRW) (Private provider of stock) Barrage & Hydropower mitigation Taff – Cardiff Bay Barrage (NRW, externally funded) (Cynrig) Seiont (agreement between Welsh Water Authority and CEGB, relating to Dinorwic power s...
23 The measure of effectiveness of salmon stocking in Wales will depend on the purpose for which stocking was carried out, including achieving increased abundance of salmon, increasing rod catches of salmon or improving and safeguarding wild population fitness. All three are valid measurements depending upon the circumstances involved. Since the ma...
40 A further important consideration for this review is how to treat the potential environmental impacts of salmon stocking on population fitness in the context of rivers designated under the Habitats Directive. Several of the rivers on which major salmon stocking programmes exist or indeed where future expansion is being discussed are designated u...
45 There has been considerable debate regarding both the effectiveness and impacts of stocking hatchery reared salmon into the wild. There is a wide ranging scientific literature based upon studies carried out in America and parts of Europe on a number of salmon species and in a number of specific locations. In addition to the peer reviewed literat...
50 A part of this review is a consideration of the consistency of the salmon stocking programme with two general areas of policy. Firstly, it has assessed the consistency of the activity with an Ecosystem Approach. The Welsh government has requested NRW to ensure it takes account of the Ecosystem Approach and Ecosystem Services in carrying out all ...
51 It is difficult to examine a single focussed activity such as stocking salmon against a broad concept such as the Ecosystem approach. The activity is clearly set within a wider context, which is the maintenance and improvement of salmon populations on certain rivers as mitigation for the impacts caused to salmon by previous impoundments and barr...
73 Using some current sample figures provided to the review it has been possible to compare the costs of in-house production with the cost of sourcing fish for stocking from commercial suppliers. From the figures provided, there is no significant cost saving to be gained from buying fish commercially, compared to the costs of producing fish in–hous...
78 This review concludes that there is now sufficient evidence available to influence policy change in this area of work. It recommends that NRW should bring all our own on-going mitigation, population re-inforcement and enhancement salmon stocking in Wales to an end, This includes all third party stocking on rivers designated under the Habitats Di...
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Aug 24, 2022 · Scotland’s Rural Affairs Secretary Mairi Gougeon has unveiled a new organic salmon hatchery in Wester Ross. Atlantic salmon hatchery in Inverkerry, Scotland. The hatchery and smolt unit at Gairloch in Wester Ross will produce 1.2 million organic salmon parr each year and raise them until they are ready for the sea-phase.
Salmon farming company Scottish Sea Farms (SSF) is to open a new £48 million Freshwater Hatchery at Barcaldine near Oban, with the aim of further improving how fish are farmed in Scotland. The new facility – set to open in 2019 – will be a centre of excellence in its sector, creating at least 10 new high-value jobs in rural Scotland as ...
their stock of wild Atlantic salmon. Below: fish rearing tanks at Sandbank Hatchery. urrent Stocking Policy Since 2011, a more targeted approach to stocking has been taken by the oard. This followed the extensive electrofishing programme and the genetic analysis pro-ject that gave an indication of the hatcheries’ contribu-tion to the rod fishery.
