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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
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
– 500 adult salmon
– 1 million ova
– 150,000 smolts
Fish Census & Stock Assessment Salmonid, sea trout & eels Adults & juveniles, marine & freshwater National & International index Stock Assessment Ecosystem Aquatic Environment freshwater and tidal high resolution data weather climate change Ecosystem Biology aquatic biology macroinvertebrate & plankton paleolimnology landuse/water interactions
Fish Traps Lakes Rivers Outputs
Annual Assessments Key indictors Marine Survival Freshwater Ova to Smolt Smolt Production Fish size. age Marine growth Run timing Stock-Recruit Relationships Time series indicators of changes Data used in: MI Research Projects National stock assessment & advice ICES – annual stocks ICES – stock change indicators
200 400 600 800 1000 1200 1400 WILD GRILSE WILD SALMON REARED GRILSE WILD SEA TROUT WILD FINNOCK WILD BROWN TROUT 2010 2011
Upstream Adult Counts Salmonid Census Data
1000 2000 3000 4000 5000 6000 7000 400000 800000 12000001600000
Smolt Output
Stock - ova
Stock-recruit
Salmon Stock: 0+ fry abundance by different methods
Juvenile Stock Data Analysis
Data Sources Data Collected
Meteorological Data High Resolution River & Lake Data Temperature Conductivity Colour/Turbidity Acidity Dissolved oxygen Dissolved Carbon Fluorescence Water level & discharge Zooplankton Phytoplankton Macro-invertebrate
Data Outputs
Water quality Changes in hydrology – i.e. floods High quality time series for climate change
Furnace Air Temperature Anomaly 1960 - 2007
Data Users
Climate Change Index Research Data RESCALE Combine with fish data Key parameters pH water level temperature DAFM Forest Service EPA IFI Teagasc International Collaborative research projects on landuse/water interactions
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