Research projects
by the Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust in 2016
Project title Fisheries research
Monnow habitat improvement project
Salmon life-history strategies in freshwater (see p14)
Salmon smolt rotary screw trap assessment
Grayling ecology Juvenile salmon and hydro Sea trout smolt survival Description
FISHERIES RESEARCH IN 2016 Staff
Develop wild trout fishery management methods
including completion of write-up/reports of all historic fishery activity
Large-scale conservation project and scientific Understanding the population declines in salmon
Calculating the effects of rotary screw traps on salmon smolts
Long-term study of the ecology of River Wylye grayling
The effects of a hydropower installation on salmon smolts
Monitoring sea trout smolts through the lower Frome and its estuary, Poole harbour
Gyrodactylus salaris in salmon Modelling to predict the impacts Gyrodactylus salaris infection of salmon stocks
Headwaters and salmonids
Flows and Frome salmon redd distribution (see p16)
PhD: Beavers and salmonids Dylan Roberts, Sian Griffiths
monitoring of 30 kilometres of river habitat on the Janine Burnham River Monnow in Herefordshire
Rasmus Lauridsen, Dylan Roberts, William Beaumont, Luke Scott, Stephen Gregory
Defra, Rural Enterprise
Scheme, Monnow Improvement Partnership, KESS EU
Core funds, EA, CEFAS, Mr A Daniell, Winton Capital
Rasmus Lauridsen, Dylan Roberts, Luke Scott CEFAS, Core funds William Beaumont, Stephen Gregory, Bill Riley
Stephen Gregory, Luke Scott
Rasmus Lauridsen, William Beaumont, Graeme Storey (EA)
Rasmus Lauridsen, William Beaumont, Luke Scott
NRW, Core funds, Grayling Research Trust, Piscatorial Society
EA, Core funds, Salmon & Trout 2012-2016 Conservation UK, Lulworth Estate
Sir Chips Keswick, Anthony
Daniell, Winton Capital, Clay Brendish Foundation
Rasmus Lauridsen, Alastair Cook, Nicola Cefas/Defra, Core funds McPherson and Nick Taylor
Contribution of headwaters to migratory salmonid Rasmus Lauridsen, William Beaumont, populations and the impacts of extreme events
Luke Scott, Dylan Roberts, Stephen Gregory, Bill Riley
How does flow affect the inter-annual distribution of salmon redds in the Frome
Impacts of beaver dams on salmonids
PhD: Impact of low flows on Investigate fish prey availability, the diet of trout salmonid river ecosystems
and salmon, stream food webs and ecosystem dynamics under differing, experimentally manipulated flow conditions
PhD: Ranunculus as a bioengineer in chalkstreams
Stephen Gregory, Rasmus Lauridsen, Dylan Roberts, Sian Griffiths (Cardiff University), Elinor Parry
Robert Needham. Supervisors: Dylan Roberts, Paul Kemp (Southampton University)
Jessica Picken. Supervisors: Rasmus
Lauridsen, Dr Iwan Jones (QMUL), Bill Riley (Cefas), Sian Griffiths (Cardiff University)
Investigate the role of Ranunculus as a bioengineer, Jessica Marsh. Supervisors: Rasmus
driving the abundance and diversity of plants, invert- Lauridsen, Dr Iwan Jones (QMUL) ebrates and fish, with particular focus on salmonids
Project title Pheasant population studies Game marking scheme Farmland birds and game Description
LOWLAND GAME RESEARCH IN 2016 Staff
Long-term monitoring of breeding pheasant populations on releasing and wild bird estates
Roger Draycott, Maureen Woodburn, Rufus Sage
Study of factors affecting return rates of pheasant Rufus Sage, Maureen Woodburn, release pens
Monitoring the response of birds to changes in farmland habitat and management
Roger Draycott
Pheasant releasing on Exmoor Impacts of released pheasants and game manage- Rufus Sage, Aidan Hulatt, Jenny Peach, ment work on woodlands and farmland in Exmoor Alice Deacon
PhD: Gapeworm and pheasants (see p18)
PhD: Corvids breeding on farmland (see p20)
PhD: Improving released pheasants
Gapeworm on shooting estates, spatial and temporal factors affecting infections in pheasants
Breeding ecology of corvids, predatory behaviour and the effect of trapping on farmland
Owen Gethings
Supervisors: Rufus Sage, Prof Simon Leather (Harper Adams University)
Lucy Capstick. Supervisors: Rufus Sage, Dr Joah Madden (Exeter University)
Using improved hand-reared pheasants to increase Andy Hall. Supervisors: Rufus Sage, survival and wild breeding post-release
Dr Joah Madden (Exeter University) G and K Boyes Trust 2015-2019 KESS EU, Core funds
Core funds, Southampton University, SNH, Salmon & Trout Conservation UK
QMUL, Cefas, Core funds 2015-2016 2014-2017 2015-2018 Cefas/Defra, Core funds 2015-2019 2015-2019 2014-2016 2009- on-going 2009- on-going 2009- on-going 2003- on-going Dylan Roberts
Funding source Core funds
Date 1997- on-going
Funding source Core funds
Core funds Sandringham Estate
Greater Exmoor Shoot Association
BBSRC/CASE Studentship, Core funds
Songbird Survival Exeter University, Core funds
Date 1996- on-going 2008- on-going 2009- on-going 2015-2016 2014-2017 2014-2017 2015-2018
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