Tracking devices fitted to wild salmon to record migration routes

To figure out where Salmon travel after leaving the rivers of Scotland, its government is spending some RM2.24mil to fit the fishes with trackers. — ETX Studio/Dailyup

Tracking devices are being fitted to wild salmon in order to record their migration routes from Scottish rivers to their feeding grounds in the Atlantic.

A research project backed by 400,000 pounds (RM2.24mil) from the Scottish government aims to understand why numbers of wild salmon have been in decline in recent decades.