What were Federico Quaranta’s “Il Provinciale” troupe doing together with Stefano Esposito at the Rocchetta hatchery last December? To find out (and it’s really worth it…) tune in to Rai1 on Saturday 21 January at 11.25 am (preview) and on RAI2 on Sunday 22 January at 2 pm (full version with extra content). We are waiting…

Today in Bojano, for the first in situ fertilization of the Biferno breeding season with cryobank seed.

Yesterday we obtained about 200 eggs from a small female of the Caprionero, which we divided into aliquots and fertilized with the sperm of 4 males from the cryobank.  

During our outings in the Volturno, we intercepted splendid adult individuals of Mediterranean trout.

Andrea de Marco, President of Legambiente Molise APS, interviewed by TGR Molise on the River Contracts, tools of understanding between institutions and associations for the protection of endangered species, but also for the implementation of sustainable interventions on the territory. https://www.rainews.it/tgr/molise/video/2022/12/contratti-di-fiume-la-strada-per-la-tutela-della-biodiversit-1968baaf-f619-4b8c-b2fe-322d9c615138.html

Let’s start the new year well with this wonderful male photographed by Stefano Esposito (MTRG) looking for reproducers in Carpinone.

Today the Rocchetta a Volturno hatchery hosted the didactic visit of the Aquaculture course held by Prof. Nicolaia Iaffaldano of the UniMol Department of Agriculture, Environment and Food. During the day, the students were able to witness live all the phases of the cryopreservation protocol.  

On Sunday 18 December 2022, our Stefano Esposito (Mediterranean Trout Research Group) also participated in the sixth edition of the winter contest “The flies of the Volturno” organized by “Amici del Volturno e dei sue tributari”, invited to illustrate the actions and results of the our project. Between LIFE NatSalMo and the Volturno fishermen, in fact,…

Even if today is Sunday, the NatSalMo technical-scientific staff is still at work on the Volturno River for the first catches of Mediterranean trout spawners. A little while ago, at “I 25 archi”, a splendid specimen of mature female allowed us to obtain 4 quotas of eggs which were fertilized in situ with the fresh semen…

On 7 December in Ripalimosani at the Dante Alighieri Comprehensive Institute, while on 13th in Campobasso with the children of the V B: thus the environmental education activities dedicated to Molise students restarted.