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The theme of this year’s Environment Day is the “Restoration of Ecosystems”, with the aim of preventing, stopping and reversing the damage inflicted on the planet’s ecosystems, thus trying to move from the exploitation of nature to its healing. And with World Environment Day 2021, the United Nations officially launches the United Nations Decade for…

The press release on the first European cryobank of Mediterranean trout seed created by Unimol thanks to LIFE NatSalMo had considerable success, not only in the traditional press (see the press review), but also in local and national news. At the link, one for all, the Tg di Dire.it, a national press:  

The cryobank of the semen proved to be an effective strategy to protect the biodiversity of some fish species and the cryopreservation protocol, originally developed for farmed salmonids, was tested for the first time on the sperm of wild native trout that populate the Molise rivers by the scientific project staff. Thus was born, in…

The project technical staff spent the whole month of December on the Volturno looking for native Mediterranean trout males for sampling and taking the new semen to be used for the new upcoming fertilizations and for the cryobank. In search of males on the Volturno:

In the video and in the photo you can see two specimens of male trout while side by side they feed in peace, without fighting each other. This happens because they are not yet in the reproductive period, otherwise we would see them as rivals and fighters. In fact, it is known that in salmonids…

The adaptation works in the hatchery of Rocchetta a Volturno proceed incessantly. In addition to the finalization of the hatchery, before the next breeding season there will also be an educational center with a multipurpose room, for conferences and face-to-face meetings that we hope to be able to organize as soon as we are in…

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.…

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…

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…