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Learning visit – day #2 21 Feb

Learning visit – day #2

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…

NatSalMo project – Learning visit – day #1 13 Feb

NatSalMo project – Learning visit – day #1

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…

Learning visit on February 13th and 14th at UNIMOL 10 Feb

Learning visit on February 13th and 14th at UNIMOL

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…

Morphological analysis and integration with genetic analysis 05 Feb

Morphological analysis and integration with genetic analysis

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,…

Barriers and pots for selective access installed on Rio Caprionero 27 Jan

Barriers and pots for selective access installed on Rio Caprionero

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…

Genetic analysis results on sampled individuals 13 Jan

Genetic analysis results on sampled individuals

As part of the preparatory action A3, the sampling stations involved 30 sites within the project area in order to cover a wide range of river habitats. The specimens, over 300 between males and females, were captured with electrofishing, measured by length and weight and marked by microchip (Pit-Tag) and with clearly visible T-anchor plates.…

River connectivity determination 02 Jan

River connectivity determination

For each flow, the Project team determined the river connectivity, or – by means of a visual census – the identification of those obstacles (natural or artificial barriers) that limit the movement and the fish lit. The sections of the waterways downstream of the 30 sampling sites of the chemical-physical analyzes and of the substrate…

The First Nat.Sal.Mo Open Forum 28 Dec

The First Nat.Sal.Mo Open Forum

The first Open Forum of the Nat.Sal.Mo. project was held on 5 December in the conference room of the Molise Region in Campobasso. It was an information and training meeting aimed at the administrators and technicians of the local authorities involved in various capacities in the management and planning of the two river basins covered…

No Kill Zone signs delivered to CIPM 18 Dec

No Kill Zone signs delivered to CIPM

In the early morning of December 5th Nicolaia Iaffaldano, project manager of the NatSalMo project, together with the president of the CIPM association Giuseppe Mastrangelo and a large group of researchers and scholars, planted and inaugurated the signs useful for fishermen who will find themselves in the No Kill Zone of Biferno next fishing season.…

First Open Forum on December 5th 04 Dec

First Open Forum on December 5th

For our project on December 5th will be a day full of important events: in the morning our team of scholars will visit the breeding sites of Biferno and Volturno to take stock of the implementation of river connectivity. On that occasion we will also plant the No Kill Zone warning signs strongly desired by…