The current scene at our Salmon & Trout Research Centre

These photos were taken on 25th February at our Salmon & Trout Research Centre on the Frome at East Stoke in Dorset. They show the high water flow through the counter and flooding:

Salmonids in the floods

You may have noticed we're experiencing a bit of wet weather at the moment in the UK with flooding heaping misery on people across the country.

Flooding on the River Avon at GWCT HQ in January 2014

Whilst the effects of flooding on humans are all too obvious, we are not the only species to be affected by floods. Fish inhabit the very rivers that are bursting their banks onto the surrounding towns and countryside. Unlike humans, however, fish have been experiencing floods in their native river habitats for hundreds or thousands of years. And because floods present a strong evolutionarily selective force (you adapt or you die), fish have adapted to survive and even thrive under certain flood conditions.

Salmonids are a good example of a group of fish species that have adapted to local flow regimes...

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New Presentation: Wylye Grayling Long-Term Study

Stephen Gregory of the GWCT recently gave a talk at the Avon Piscatorial Society annual Fly Day meeting in Salisbury. The topic of the talk was grayling on the Wylye river in Hampshire and how the population might be affected by flooding, past and future.

You can view the slides from the presentation here:

View Piscatorial Society Fly Day Grayling Talk Feb14 and other presentations by sgregory.