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These beautiful trout about two and a half years old are the “daughters” of our sowing in the lateral tributaries of the Biferno basin, those coming from the Matese. We are monitoring their populations that have gone further upstream by about a kilometer compared to our cocooning.

Our fifth Open Forum also closed yesterday evening, with a truly positive outcome. The two meetings, carried out directly in the territories of the two basins concerned, met with excellent participation and served to continue the dialogue with the stakeholders. For both the Volturno and the Biferno the needs and proposals are multiple and, working…

The second Natsalmo Focus Group, the one dedicated to the Volturno basin, took place on 17 October 2022 at the Pignatelli castle in Monteroduni. This meeting was also very well attended, managing to involve the main categories of stakeholders present in the 9 municipalities of the Volturno basin (Castel San Vincenzo, Rocchetta a Volturno, Colli…

We have reached the fifth appointment with the NatsalMo Open Forum, which this time will take place in two different places on two contiguous dates: October 25 in Bojano and October 26 in Venafro, both starting at 4.00 pm. We continue together in the dialogue with the stakeholders, to proceed towards the identification of the…

Last 12 October at the Albergo Diffuso “La Piana dei Mulini” in Colle d’Anchise (CB), the first of the two Focus Groups dedicated to the evaluation of the socio-economic impact of our project on the territory of the two reference river basins (action D2). The meeting provided for the active participation of the main categories…

At the eighth IWBFG (International Workshop on the Biology of Fish Gametes) congress held in Gdansk – Poland from 20 to 23 September, Prof. Nicolaia Iaffaldano and Dr. Giusy Rusco presented orally the related preliminary results about the efficacy of the ovarian fluid on the performance of the spermatozoa of the native populations of Mediterranean…

How do the children of the Biferno breeders become if they are raised in a high-altitude Matese stream, with cold and difficult winters interspersed with summers characterized by a water crisis? Only red point and intense zebra stripes. They almost resemble the trout that inhabit the sides of the Volturno, although they are only distant…

Our Environmental Education Team offers all primary and middle school teachers in Molise and their students an educational path to discover the biodiversity of the Molise area, rich in plant endemisms and protected and rare animal species such as the Mediterranean trout and the Otter. Teachers and students will thus have the opportunity to participate…

After a short summer break, our quantitative monitoring and genetic analyzes in the Biferno river basin start again, this year a little earlier than usual, to allow us to have the results before March, the month in which the NatSalMo project will reach its end. term. Soon, therefore, we will have the results in terms…

Today Stefano Esposito (MTRG), together with some representatives of Fipsas Isernia, carried out a monitoring action on part of the sites affected by the NatSalMo sowing this winter. In particular, the group went to the San Nazzaro river, a direct tributary of the Volturno. In the monitored sites there are essentially two sizes of fry,…