severn_multi_species: Acoustic telemetry multi-species study in the River Severn, 2015-ongoing.
Citation
Bolland, J.D., Britton, J.R., Crundwell, C., Dodd, J.R., Washburn, E., Bainger, C., Velterop, R., Latchford, A., Harrison, R., Palder, J., Davies, P., Yeldham, M. (2026). Acoustic telemetry multi-species study in the River Severn, 2015-ongoing. https://marineinfo.org/doc/dataset/9187
Contact:
Bolland, Jon Availability: This work is licensed under http://vocab.nerc.ac.uk/collection/L08/current/MO meaning it is under moratorium until 2028-08-10
Notes: Animal data under embargo. Receiver and deployment metadata available at: https://www.lifewatch.be/etn/.
Description
The River Severn receiver array has primarily used coarse-scale acoustic telemetry (69 kHz) to understand the movements, habitat use and survival of twaite shad, sea lamprey, barbel, bream, Atlantic salmon smolts, pike and zander to inform catchment management and species conservation. Beyond this ETN project, it has also studied fine-scale movements of fish using positioning arrays (69 and 180 kHz), predation (digestion sensors) and fish pass performance (PIT telemetry). Scope Themes: Biology, Biology > Acoustics, Biology > Ecology - biodiversity, Biology > Fish, Fisheries > Fish stocks/catches/taggings, Physical > Underwater acoustics Keywords: Fresh water · Acoustic arrays · Acoustic data · Acoustic detection · Acoustic tags · Acoustic Tags · Acoustic telemetry · Acoustic Telemetry · Acoustic tracking · Animal Project · Fish tracking · Network Project · PIT Telemetry · Severn · Cyprinidae Rafinesque, 1815 · Esocidae Rafinesque, 1815 · Percidae Rafinesque, 1815 · Petromyzontidae Bonaparte, 1831 · Pisces · Alosa fallax (Lacepède, 1803) · Barbus barbus (Linnaeus, 1758) · Esox lucius Linnaeus, 1758 · Petromyzon marinus Linnaeus, 1758 · Salmo salar Linnaeus, 1758 · Sander lucioperca (Linnaeus, 1758) Geographical coverage Severn [Marine Regions] Temporal coverage
From 2015 on [In Progress] Taxonomic coverage
Target species
Parameters
Fish detections Methodology
Fish detections: Acoustic telemetry Fish detections: PIT telemetry (Passive Integrated Transponder) Contributors
University of Hull; Hull International Fisheries Institute (HIFI), more, data creator, principal investigator
Bournemouth University; Institute of Aquatic Sciences (IAS), more, data creator
Environment Agency (EA), more, data creator
Natural England, more, data creator
Bournemouth University, more, data creator
Related datasets
Parent dataset: European Tracking Network (ETN) data, more Dataset status: In Progress
Data type: Data
Data origin: Research: field experiment
Metadatarecord created: 2026-08-11
Information last updated: 2026-08-11
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