Under the Living North Sea programme, The Tweed Foundation is acoustic tagging Sea-trout - both smolts and adults - to ascertain fish movement within the Tweed District.

Two recaptures have now been reported.  Both fish were originally tagged at the Paxton Netting Station in the lower Tweed.

The first was caught at Paxton on 12th June and tagged and released.  It was recaptured by an angler in Middle Tweed, near Melrose, on 16th July.

The second, tagged and released at Paxton on 26th June was recaptured on the River Till at Redscar on 30th July. 

Coincidentally, both fish were recaught at their destinations after travelling for 34 days.


A Sea-trout being gastric-tagged. Tag is inserted into the fish's stomach using a tube.
Note the blue floy tag on the dorsal fin, which indicates that the fish has been tagged. PLEASE LOOK OUT FOR THESE.


If you catch or find a tagged fish, do please contact The Tweed Foundation immediately and report the details: 
The tag number, place and date of capture.

Catching a tagged fish does not mean that you have to return it to the water, but we would be very grateful if you could supply us with the information from the tag for the study.

Tweed Foundation contact:  Tel: 01896 848271       Email:  Ronald Campbell -    rcampbell@tweedfoundation.org.uk



                     
In the middle of 2009, The Tweed Foundation began a major new study on Tweed's Sea-trout stocks, under the title "Living North Sea". This is a pan-northern European project comprising 11 other scientific research partners from Scotland, England, Belgium, The Netherlands, Germany, Norway, Sweden and Denmark. With these partners in the programme, it is hoped to identify the mixed-stock fisheries around the southern North Sea that exploit Tweed Sea-trout as well as confirm and extend knowledge of the marine feeding grounds that they utilise. The long-term aim of the Living North Seas work is to set up a North Sea Sea-trout group that can oversee the management of the  species in the North Sea.