Salmon and sea trout are valuable in multiple ways.

The job of the Trust is to show people how both species can be conserved and managed to enable their value to society to be realised sustainably. The Trust’s work concentrates on improving our knowledge of these fish, their habitats and their complex and fascinating life histories. Until recently this knowledge was confined mainly to the freshwater aspects of their life cycle, but in the last three years the AST has funded research to find out where salmon from different regions feed at sea, and why marine mortality of both salmon and sea trout continues to reduce their abundance in our rivers.

Recent Projects & Research

Multi-source sampling: stable isotope variation and the skinny salmon story

Why the genes should fit

Salmon farming in Scotland: economic success or ecological failure?

Salmon Aquaculture Dialogue