Scottish Marine and Freshwater Science Vol 6 No 5: Ranching to the rod: an evaluation of adult returns from hatchery-reared Atlantic salmon smolts released in Scottish rivers

Report presents recapture data from monitored smolt releases on four Scottish rivers and

compares return rates of hatchery and wild-reared salmon smolts originating from a

common stock on two of these rivers. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.7489/1610-1


Acknowledgements

We thank Scottish and Southern Energy for financing aspects of the study. We also thank our colleagues Bob Morgan, Gordon Struthers and Alisdair MacDonald for helping to organise and for assisting with the earlier tagging programmes, and Stuart Middlemas for assistance with reporting. The work was carried out with the support of landowners and local fishery managers to whom we are grateful.

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