As we have already said elsewhere, the first step is to select the breeding stock. The specimens are captured, temporarily retained and genetically characterized (or recognized, if already marked). Male migration begins first, therefore the semen is taken first, which is put to freeze in the cryobank. Subsequently the eggs are taken from a certain…

It is spring and the embryonic S. macrostigma eggs, fertilized this winter partly with fresh seed, partly with frozen one, are close to hatching. For this reason we must hurry and bring them to their rivers: despite the pandemic, in fact, the NatSalMo technical staff – with all the necessary precautions and strictly observing the…

Even in this period of pandemic from Covid-19, in our project there are some invaluable actions that must absolutely be carried out in order not to risk nullifying the work done so far. One of these is the topping up of liquid nitrogen in the cryobank containers of the native Mediterranean trout seed, the first…

In the municipality of Oratino, in the Bivaro area, the project staff recovered the old wash house by cleaning it and transforming it into an hatchery. The major obstacle to implementing this transformation was due to the impossibility of installing air conditioners to refrigerate the water necessary for optimal incubation of the eggs. But thanks…

One of the great innovations of our project is the creation of the first cryobank of the Mediterranean trout seed, a precious tool for the conservation and protection of the species. In January 2020, the project staff set up a mobile laboratory at the Rocchetta hatchery in Volturno to freeze the seminal material taken from…

At Biferno, Boiano locality. Cages are cleaned every day: in fact, together with natural waste, the current also carries a lot of waste, which must be removed as soon as possible to allow the trout in the cage to remain in the best possible conditions. Subsequently, we proceed to recover the trout rising from the…

February 13th, 2020, first day of the Meeting and Nicolaia Iaffaldano, project manager, immediately illustrates the transferability actions of the NatSalMo project to the Romanian colleagues who have come here from the universities of ULBS and UAIASI. The work is now proceeding quickly and dr. Gibertoni with dr. Esposito reveal interesting details that have emerged…

The next 13 and 14 February the whole project team will meet in Campobasso, at UNIMOL, for a training meeting with the Romanian delegation of the universities of ULBS and UAIASI. In the two days dedicated to the learning visit not only the project will be illustrated, but the progress of the work will be…

Also in the context of the preparatory actions for the project, the morphological analysis of the captured, labeled and photographed individuals was evaluated, from which biological tissue samples (fragment of fat fin) were taken for genetic analysis. The measurements and the counting of the livery characteristics are done through the ImageJ software. The morphological analysis,…

The actions to restore and protect the populations of native S. macrostigma trout in the Volturno and Biferno basins continue with great alacrity. To promote the natural reproduction of native Mediterranean trout, we have just finished installing the barriers and pots for selective access to the main reproduction sites of the Volturno and Biferno. But…