Newport Research Facility The Burrishoole & the Catchment Cluster Open Day
Welcome to Burrishoole & the Newport Facility Extent of the facilities The range of services they support National Salmon Assessment Experimental Rearing and Ranching Burrishoole Catchment Ecosystem & Fish Census National Eel Advice Burrishoole Rod Angling Fishery
Burrishoole Facility comprises: Laboratory Fish trapping (census) stations Rearing and hatchery unit Loughs Feeagh and Furnace Met Eireann Weather Stations x 2 Access to 9,000 ha catchment forestry – after 1950s uplands streams & lakes Note: MI does not own Bunaveela or rivers Access to the MI Data – i.e. tide & level, SST
Where did it start? Salmon Research Trust of Ireland Mission Statement - 1955 To carry out fundamental research into the factors which govern the development of stocks of salmon and sea trout. Including whether “like breeds like – salmon sea age”
The Facilities - Infrastructure
The Facilities – Migratory Fish
The Facilities – Environment & Ecosystem
Lough Furnace Tidal Lagoon
The Facilities – Fish Rearing • Broodstock holding pond – 500 adult salmon • Hatchery – 1 million ova • 3 Separate rearing areas – 150,000 smolts
National Assessment and Advice Salmon, sea trout and eel • National Assessments of stocks • Representation of the assessment data at International assessment groups (e.g. ICES) • Provision of scientific advice • Research & Development
Newport Catchment Team 3 core integrated programmes in Burrishoole Ecosystem Aquatic Environment Fish Census & Stock Assessment freshwater and tidal Salmonid, sea trout & eels high resolution data Adults & juveniles, marine & freshwater weather National & International index climate change Stock Assessment Research & Development supporting Scientific Advice Ecosystem Biology aquatic biology macroinvertebrate & plankton paleolimnology landuse/water interactions
Newport Catchment Team Fish Census & Stock Assessment Fish Traps Salmonid Census Data Outputs 1400 Upstream Adult Counts 1200 Annual Assessments 1000 800 Key indictors 2010 600 Marine Survival 2011 400 Freshwater Ova to Smolt 200 0 Smolt Production WILD WILD REARED WILD SEA WILD WILD GRILSE SALMON GRILSE TROUT FINNOCK BROWN Fish size. age TROUT Marine growth Juvenile Stock Data Run timing Salmon Stock: 0+ fry Rivers abundance Stock-Recruit Relationships by different methods Time series Analysis indicators of changes 7000 Stock-recruit 6000 Data used in: 5000 Lakes Smolt Output 4000 MI Research Projects 3000 National stock assessment 2000 & advice 1000 ICES – annual stocks 0 0 400000 800000 12000001600000 ICES – stock change Stock - ova indicators
Newport Catchment Team Ecosystem Aquatic Environment Data Sources Data Users Data Collected Climate Change Index Meteorological Data Research Data High Resolution River & Lake Data RESCALE Temperature Combine with fish data Conductivity Key parameters Colour/Turbidity pH Acidity water level Dissolved oxygen temperature Dissolved Carbon DAFM Fluorescence Forest Service Water level & discharge EPA Zooplankton IFI Phytoplankton Teagasc Macro-invertebrate International Data Outputs Collaborative research Water quality projects on landuse/water Changes in hydrology – i.e. floods interactions High quality time series for climate change Furnace Air Temperature Anomaly 1960 - 2007 2.000 Temperature Anomaly (degC) 1961-1990 1.500 1.000 0.500 0.000 1960 1965 1970 1975 1980 1985 1990 1995 2000 2005 -0.500 -1.000
Current & New External Funded/Collaborative Programmes PROGNOS - Predicting in-lake Responses to change using near real time modelS Water JPI DETECT - DisEnTangling the impacts of multiple stressors on the ECology of waTerbodies EPA Research MANTEL - Management of Climatic Extreme Events in Lakes & Reservoirs for the Protection of Ecosystem Services Marie-Curie Training Award Stable Isotopes and food chain pilot study AST Research Grant ALH - Alternative life histories: linking genes to phenotypes to demography ERC – T Reed UCC Wild farmed interactions in a changing world: formulation of a predictive methodology to inform environmental best practice to secure long-term sustainability of global wild and farm fish populations SFI – P McGinnity/P Prodohl QUB Fellowship programme – next Slide
Cullen Fellowship Programme 2015 Call – Newport based. Brian Doyle (E. Jennings, DKIT) Resolving the carbon budget for Lough Feeagh Sean Kelly (M. White, NUIG) Lough Furnace hydrology inputs and ecology (plankton & fish) Aisling Doogan (D. Brophy, GMIT) Early migration in salmon and sea trout from the Burrishoole river using acoustic telemetry in freshwater and coastal areas, retrospective growth and migration studies (scales & M’tags ). Ross Findley (T. Reed, UCC) Early migration in salmon and sea trout from the Burrishoole river using, census data, Pit tag technology in freshwater and brackish waters and e’fishing /beach seine survey data. All four projects have links to climate and ocean change
Where do we go next?
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