The Department of Agriculture, Environment and Food – Unimol (DIAAA), where – as part of our project – the first cryobank in Europe of Mediterranean trout semen was established and is operational, is actively committed to promoting and supporting the activities of research conducted by international doctoral students through the Erasmus programme.

Semen sampling from adults in Biferno.

What a morning today on the Biferno river! A first roundup of photos of the actions carried out this morning in Bojano, thanks also to the invaluable help of Cristian Caruso.

Today was a day of monitoring on some sections of the Volturno tributaries where, in recent years, we had carried out eradication and sowing actions with cocooning. In addition to a high number of 2+ individuals, we found many 0+ fry, i.e. those produced in the first reproduction of 2-year-old primiparous fish. And tomorrow we…

Natsalmo protocol for cryopreservation of Mediterranean trout semen at the Department of Agriculture, Environment and Food – Unimol.

Today on the Rio Caprionero some students from the Unimol Agricultural Sciences Aquaculture course joined us for a field exercise. Other Mediterranean trout individuals were sampled thanks also to the invaluable help of Cristian Caruso, always very helpful and capable.

This morning on San Nazzaro the NatSalMo activities for the capture of Mediterranean trout broodstock restarted for the collection of the semen that will implement the doses of the cryobank.

Antonio Nicoletti, National Manager of Protected Areas and Biodiversity of Legambiente, presented our project at the XII National Table of River Contracts, held between yesterday and today in Naples.

The update of the IUCN Red List presented last Monday at COP28 in Dubai contains the first complete assessment of the world’s freshwater fish species: to date 𝗼𝗹𝗰𝗲 𝘀𝗶 𝘁𝗿𝗼𝘃𝗮 𝗮 𝗿𝗶𝘀𝗰𝗵𝗶𝗼 𝗱𝗶 𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗻𝘇𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗲.

In our project the support of the fishermen was of fundamental importance, their help invaluable. Even today they are our “eye” on the rivers: thanks to Michele Castaldi (FIPSAS Isernia) and Giovanni Peluso (Associazione Amici del Volturno) for these beautiful photos “live” from the Volturno.