{"id":566082,"date":"2026-05-04T18:12:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-04T18:12:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/566082\/"},"modified":"2026-05-04T18:12:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T18:12:09","slug":"chalk-salmon-in-winchester-highlights-struggles-of-the-species","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/566082\/","title":{"rendered":"Chalk salmon in Winchester highlights struggles of the species"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Wild salmon in Hampshire&#8217;s chalk streams face multiple threats, including rising water temperatures, degradation of habitat, sewage and urban and agricultural pollution.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">There are thought to be only 220 chalk rivers in existence &#8211; the majority of which are in southern England.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The salmon bury their eggs in the waterways, known for their clear water and gravelly bottoms.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The fish bury their eggs in fragile gravel nests known as redds and shoals of juvenile salmon start their journey from the rivers to the sea each spring.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">After often years at sea, adult Atlantic salmon swim thousands of miles to return to the chalk streams where they were born.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Hampshire and Isle of Wight Wildlife Trust figures showed just 133 adult salmon were recorded returning to spawn in 2022 &#8211; the lowest figure since monitoring began in 1990.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wild salmon in Hampshire&#8217;s chalk streams face multiple threats, including rising water temperatures, degradation of habitat, sewage and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":566083,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[1397,90,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-566082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-environment","tag-science","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/566082","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=566082"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/566082\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/566083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=566082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=566082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=566082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}