The CSTP Technical Report presents extensive chapters on sea trout fisheries inventory, stock identification (using genetics and microchemistry), freshwater production, life histories and marine ecology across its distribution around the Irish Sea. Available at link http://celticseatrout.com/downloads/technical-report/
Closure Meetings The final closure event was held in Wales (Bangor, Gwynedd at Plas Menai) on 8th January and was well attended by 105 people including anglers and local fishery managers. This was the last in a series of such … Read more
The CSTP was an Interreg IVA funded project, running from 2009 to April 2013, intended to improve the management and long term future of sea trout in the Celtic seas by providing information and management advice, and by establishing a … Read more
Sea trout were top of the agenda at a recent meeting between Minister Alun Davies from Wales and Minister Fergus O’Dowd held in Dail Eireann, Dublin. Both ministers were briefed about progress with the INTERREG IVa Ireland-Wales funded Celtic Sea … Read more
The Celtic Sea Trout Project (CSTP) is a European Union, Interreg IV‐funded, Ireland‐Wales collaborative project looking into the status, distribution, genetics and ecology of sea trout around the Irish Sea (http://celticseatrout.com/?page_id=6). Several key aspects of the project require scales samples … Read more
Two Irish anglers, Martin McKenny from the River Dee and Brian McShane from the Castletown River, were the top sea trout samplers for the Celtic Sea Trout Project in 2011. Both anglers, plus several other Irish winners, will be presented … Read more
Introduction The Celtic Sea Trout Project (CSTP) is a European Union, Interreg IVA-funded, Ireland-Wales collaborative project on the status, distribution, genetics and ecology of sea trout around the Irish Sea. This note briefly outlines progress in 2011 for the many … Read more
The vast majority of sea trout caught by anglers are taken from rivers by fly, spinning or bait fishing. But we all know that sea trout spend a lot of their time feeding in coastal waters, so in principle it … Read more
CSTP is extremely grateful to all those anglers who have collected sea trout scales from their rod-caught fish in 2011. Hundreds have been returned to the project officers in Ireland and Wales. Anglers or clubs with further samples to return … Read more
On May 14th 2011 The Environment Agency Wales (Northern Area) held a fishing open day for anglers and the public at the United Utilities, Llyn Brenig Visitor Centre. The EA kindly offered the CSTP a stand there to promote the … Read more