National Salmon Scale Project

Description

Anglers who are willing to become citizen scientists are taking part in the National Salmon Scale Project which sees them carefully take scale samples from live fish before returning them to water and submitting the samples to Inland Fisheries Ireland for research purposes.

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Human dimension

Organization

Inland Fisheries Ireland

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