Visit by Swiss PhD students

Research staff at the College, in partnership with Wester Ross Fisheries Trust, were asked to introduce aspects of fisheries management and vegetation history to conservation management PhD student from the University of Zurich in early July. The students were based at the SNH Beinn Eighe field station at Anancaun for a week, studying a range of conservation management issues. Eric Verspoor of the Rivers and Lochs Institute and Peter Cunningham of Wester Ross Fisheries Trust, introduced the realities of fisheries management, fisheries genetics and biodiversity before leading an electrofishing expedition on the River Bruachaig.  The students were fortunate to see both salmon and trout fry caught during the electrofishing sampling. Salmon fry above the usually impassable Bruachaig falls was a particularly significant find.