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Non-tech summaries 2016: projects on protection of the environment

Projects granted during 2016 that have a primary purpose of protection of the natural environment in the interests of the health or welfare of human beings or animals.

• From: Home Office
• Published: 21 December 2017

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Non-technical summaries: projects granted in 2016, volume 30

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This document outlines the projects granted under the Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act 1986 during 2016 with a primary purpose of protection of the natural environment in the interests of the health or welfare of human beings or animals.

The following projects were granted:

• bala sluices salmon smolt tagging and tracking (salmon, acoustic, tags, salmonids, tagging)

• ecotoxicology of micro pollutants for fish protection (fish, ecotoxicology, micro pollutants, environment)

• ecology, genetics and conservation of ruminant populations (sheep, deer, ecology, evolution, ageing, parasites)

• exposure of rainbow trout to crude oil (fish, crude oil, taint)

• exposure to and effects of contaminants on birds (birds, environmental contaminants, behaviour, ecology)

• assessing freshwater fisheries (wildlife, population, salmo, anguilla)

• biological control of invasive signal crayfish by european eel and associated effects on sediment dynamics (eel, crayfish, sediment release)

• investigation of ecotoxicology and pathophysiology of fish (fish pathology, fish physiology, fish toxicology)

• ecophysiological studies of fish (fish, growth, behaviour, life history)

Published 21 December 2017