Latest S&TC News & Views
Below you can have a read of the latest S&TC news and views.
These articles describe what is happening in the industry (we always have one ear to the ground), our stance on important topics (based on our extensive scientific knowledge and 115+ years of experience), and how our campaigns are progressing (what your support helps us achieve).
Our work and news covers a range of topics and issues relevant to the health of salmon and trout in our UK freshwaters.
Every month we summarise this news into a handy email newsletter, and we also send out occasional press releases - subscribe here to join our S&TC news list and stay in the know.
Salmon Farming News & Views
Clear support for protecting wild salmon
Would you eat this?
Sea lice rampant on salmon farms
Don’t just take our word for it
SNH and EA formally notified of threat of environmental damage from escaped farmed salmon
Not just another escape
S&TC leaves the Missing Salmon Alliance
Why a strict ceiling on sea lice must be applied to all Scotland’s salmon farms
NASCO 2020
Salmon farmers own data makes the case for much lower sea lice limits
Review of the Report of the Salmon Interactions Working Group
Salmon Farm Regulation: S&TC initial response to SIWG report
Salmon Farming: New study shows economic costs never assessed by government
S&TCS writes to Scottish Ministers: MSA position on salmon farming regulation
Missing Salmon Alliance: Urgent Implementation of new system of regulation for fish farms
Scottish Ministers’ lamentable failure to regulate salmon farming
Can a “feed the world” mantra justify trashing our marine environment?
S&TC and Patagonia deliver 170,000 strong petition to Scottish Parliament
Sea lice numbers on salmon farms double in a single year
Response to MOWI decision to close Loch Ewe salmon farm
ARTIFISHAL & Patagonia Inc
Salmon farming being supported by hands-off regulation and taxpayers’ money
NASCO 2019
BBC Panorama: Salmon Farming Exposed
The Shetland Factor
We all have a responsibility to save the ‘King of Fish’
Scottish Government inertia marks anniversary of Scottish Parliament’s Environment Committee’s report into salmon farming
S&TCS briefing as Scottish Government debate the future of salmon farming
2018: A year in review
Why you should go salmon-free this Christmas
S&TCS warmly welcomes the Rural Economy Committee’s report on salmon farming
“Organic” farmed salmon – let’s get real
Salmon farming industry blames wild fish for sea lice infestations
Loch Roag Sea Lice: SSPO Defence Falls Flat
Wild Adult Salmon Run Decimated By Sea Lice
The curious case of the great salmon escape that wasn’t…
S&TCS FOI Requests: Scottish Government still not responding lawfully
Scottish salmon farming seeks to expand as publication of Scottish Parliament’s Rural Economy Committee report approaches
SSPO retreats from commitments given in evidence session to MSPs
NASF &ASF sign 12-year salmon agreement with Greenland fishermen
Living Rivers News & Views
The ‘other’ metrics
Dumping raw sewage in rivers
We are recruiting
River Action UK announces advisory board
Relief for Welsh rivers as Government commit to agricultural pollution regulations
Untangled Talks with Feargal Sharkey
NRW’s planning advice on Wye pollution ineffective say conservation organisations Fish Legal and Salmon & Trout Conservation
Salmon & Trout Conservation sponsors wildlife filmmaker Jack Perks latest project
River Lugg: EA issued with EDR
Severn Trent to adopt SmartRivers
Sewage (Inland Waters) Bill
It’s the perfume that you notice first.
Time for bespoke regulatory targets for all chalkstreams
SmartRivers developments and achievements during lockdown
MoRPh: a tool for assessing river habitats at biological monitoring sites
Persistence pays off in the pursuit of a pesticide problem
Phosphorus, Chickens and the River Wye
Thirty-six toxic pesticides washed into headwaters of SAC chalkstream
Toxic neonicotinoid washed off salad leaves into protected chalkstream
S&TC Cymru Update June 2020
SmartRivers launched in Wales
Increase in abundance: A dangerously simplistic view of river health
Milk. A serious environmental threat?
Chalk-Streams First
Agricultural Pollution – Educate, Encourage, Enforce
Environmental Land Management Scheme 2020
High-frequency phosphorus monitoring for water quality management
Bakkavör plc must now end pollution of Upper Itchen
Sewin and their habitats
In pursuit of Perfection
Challenges & Choices Consultation 2020
Don Catchment Rivers Trust wins Prix Charles Ritz Award 2019
Dr Cyril Bennett MBE becomes S&TC’s latest honorary life member
Incinerator proposal raises serious concerns
River Invertebrate App – Status Update
Agricultural Pollution Update – Nov 2019
SmartRivers Update – Great Stour
Riverfly Partnership News
SmartRivers is delivering results
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