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…
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…
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.…
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…
04 Dec
Water analysis: very comforting results
As anticipated, in the meeting held on 19 November at Unimol in the presence of the entire partnership, the results obtained so far from the actions carried out in the previous months were presented. In particular, the meeting opened with dr. Bruno Testa who illustrated the results of the analyzes conducted in the waters of…
03 Dec
Partnership meeting on 19th November 2019: a great success of attendance and content
The meeting on November 19th 2019 in which the entire partnership of the LIFE NatSalMo project met at the Agriculture Environment and Food Department of the University of Molise di Campobasso was a real success in terms of attendance and content. The representatives of UNIMOL, Mediterranean Trout Research Group (MTRG), Legambiente (LAM), Studio Giuliano (SG)…
02 Dec
The Life Nat.Sal.Mo project at the Life Ticino Biosource workshop
In a workshop dedicated to LIFE projects to protect fish fauna, Nat.Sal.Mo, on the recovery and protection of native Mediterranean trout in the Molise river basins, could not be missing. Representing our project on October 4th in Pontevecchio Magenta (MI) there was P.P. Gibertoni of MTRG, who masterfully illustrated to the numerous participants the numerous…
17 Oct
The first withdrawals with electrofishing
One of the first actions of our project involves sampling and genetic analysis on the Mediterranean trout populations currently present in the Volturno and Biferno. Last winter the first samples were taken with the electro-phishing technique: a narcosis is induced with calibrated electrical impulses and, after taking measurements and measurements, the specimen is released where…
07 Oct
Glossary in pills – Salmo Macrostigma
Let’s kick off a small in-depth section of the terminology used in the NatSalMo project. Salmo macrostigma Not everyone knows that the Mediterranean trout typical of central-southern and insular Italy has a scientific name, or rather, two: Salmo macrostigma or Salmo cettii. Today we tend to consider the two nomenclatur as synonyms, but in truth…
04 Oct
Conference in Sibiu- Very positive reception for NatSalMo project
In Sibiu a delegation of researchers from the LIFE NatsalMo project, led by Project Manager Nicolaia Iaffaldano, has disclosed the excellent results obtained so far in the most effective procedures to be applied to optimize the cryopreservation protocol of the sperm of the Salmo macrostigma . The welcome of the Romanian colleagues was, as always,…