During the last 30 years, numbers of wild salmon returning from the sea have fallen by more than half. Wild Salmon and Sea Trout are an important natural resource and we need help to find out why, and what can be done to stem this decline.

Since 1967, the Atlantic Salmon Trust has been involved in the funding and sponsorship of practical research programmes tackling the problems wild Atlantic salmon and sea trout face today.

The 2012 auction is now closed. Bidders can still monitor their activity here.

Atlantic salmon and sea trout are sentinels for our environment.

A sentinel species is an animal whose presence or absence in an area indicates certain environmental conditions, such as pollution.

Because salmon and sea trout spend time in both our rivers and our marine environment, they provide an invaluable way of monitoring how healthy these environments are. Very often, river pollution incidents are only detected because of damage to resident salmonids.