Fish surveys

BUG has specialist expertise in designing and conducting fish surveys for a wide range of species. Capabilities include:

• Electric fishing – fully quantitative or semi quantitative multi-species electric fishing surveys.
• Seine netting – marginal seine net surveys, including larval and juvenile fish.
• Fyke netting – particularly useful for determining presence/absence of benthic species, such as eel.
• Bespoke sampling design – sampling glass eels and other cryptic species using novel methodologies.
• Tagging/Tracking studies – acoustic telemetry, PIT tagging
• eDNA – developing techniques for identifying presence/absence of invasive fish species.