Wild salmon. (Photo Credit: Friends of the Irish Environment)

Marine Institute backs controversial study on wild salmon

The Marine Institute says it stands over a scientific paper on aquaculture impacts on wild salmon stocks, written by its staff, which has aroused hot criticism.

The study, published in the peer reviewed international Agricultural Sciences Journal (June 2013), found no correlation between the presence of aquaculture and the performance of adjacent wild salmon stocks.

Dr. Dave Jackson and colleagues at the Marine Institute examined geographic and temporal trends in Atlantic salmon stock abundance at a River Basin District level and evaluated the effect of salmon aquaculture sites and freshwater habitat quality as potential drivers of stock abundance.

The study found no correlation between the presence of aquaculture and the performance of adjacent wild salmon stocks. Freshwater habitat quality was found to have a highly significant correlation with stock status, suggesting that it may be a key driver, implicated in the survival of individual stocks.

The Marine Institute believes that access to quality research is vital to the scientific community and beyond and open access ensures that members of the public and the scientific community can freely access quality research without having to pay a download fee.  
 
The Institute also highlights that it stands firmly over all peer reviewed scientific papers published by its staff and supports open access to high quality research.

The paper, Evaluation of the impacts of aquaculture and freshwater habitat on the status of Atlantic salmon stocks in Ireland can be downloaded directly as a PDF document.

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