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Conclusions<br />
• Spawning sites and timing<br />
– The data collected in 2010 and drawn from<br />
previous studies from 1989 suggest<br />
– Considering capture patterns, spawning is<br />
likely to occur in mid July<br />
– There may be two main areas of shad<br />
spawning in the Solway<br />
• Urr<br />
• Bladnoch<br />
• Future work<br />
• Spawning locations now need to<br />
be narrowed down<br />
– Surveys of areas being planned<br />
– Possibility of using sonar?<br />
– Remote sensing?<br />
• Juvenile surveys<br />
– netting<br />
• One of the Urr nets has been<br />
releasing shad alive<br />
– Possibility of tagging individuals?<br />
– Don’t know condition