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  1. North Atlantic Salmon Conservation
    Slightly lengthy piece in todays Herald. Mike A BROAD grin stretches across Robert White's face when I come in from the frost at the Catholes hut, a wooden cabin, perched on a dramatic bend on the river Tay. He had woken up to a clear sky. After weeks of Storm Ciara's dirt, wind and torrents, of...
  2. News & Features
    I get this to my work email every week.I don't know who subscribed. I posted a second one below.I would like some feedback ass to whether I should continue to.post these.Thanks. "Farm-free: Angling correspondent Sir Michael Wigan recently wrote in Scottish Field that "Within five years Norway...
  3. North Atlantic Salmon Conservation
    An extract from todays Herald. Not seen the lists for this years categories yet Mike ANGLERS will be banned from taking their catch home on more than 100 of Scotland's salmon rivers this year. Ten rivers or waterways have moved to the highest conservation status since last year, amid ongoing...
  4. General Board
    I'm a member, received this email and thought I'd share it for anyone interested in joining. COME AND JOIN US by davecarrickryton Tyneside Anglers Syndicate is welcoming new members for the forthcoming 2020 season. We offer some very good fishing on prime Northern rivers which include: Tyne and...
  5. General Board
    From this weekend Financial Times: "8 Sally Barnes Wild Atlantic smoked salmon 2019 marks 40 years since Sally Barnes started smoking wild Atlantic salmon at her Woodcock Smokery in West Cork. One of the great pioneers of Irish gastronomy, she works only with wild fish, and her salmon...
  6. General Board
    Sitting on the river bank and wondering what I must do to catch a fish I realised I'd be lucky to see one let alone catch one. There's definitely an absence of fish in the rivers. You then get home and do a little digging.Having looked at the catches for last year, which were bad enough...
  7. Hunting & Shooting
    Chris is at it again, The Crowdfunder is over halfway there - Unfortunately Wild Justice make some valid points & significant changes & regulation will be coming! Wild Justice launches new attack on shooting community
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    Wild salmon population 'at crisis point' with catches in Scotland at lowest level on record | The Independent Wild salmon population 'at crisis point' with catches in Scotland at lowest level on record | The Independent I'm.just posting this for information. As a footnote, it's been mooted that...
  9. General Board
    Given the poor salmon runs over the last few years on top of the switch outfit I want I'm also looking to kit myself out with a light trout outfit to target wild browns and grayling when Salar and Sea Trutta are not on the cards. I've a greys GR50 8# for seatrout/grilse work which I like so was...
  10. General Board
    Norwegian study shows a clear biennial pattern emerging due to the production cycle of fish farms which clearly shows that fish farms play an important role in the epidemiology of sea lice on wild fish stock...............
  11. General Board
    Just read this New proof that fish farm escapees interbreed with wild salmon: DFO | CBC News
  12. Trout Fishing
    I took a couple of guests who bought a day from the WTT auction down to the river Otter yesterday . On a very difficult day due to the wind they managed a few including this beautiful wild fish . Getting on for a pound and a half and safely released . Colin.
  13. General Board
    I know this topic has been covered many times but i feel it is time to reconsider introducing them on many rivers that are in the doldrums due to falling catches of Salmon. I read today that the survival rate of wild spawned eggs is about 15% while the survival rate of hatchery eggs is about...
  14. Off Topic Lounge
    I've been around home the past few days and took in some of the things I worked to establish in my flower beds. It's amazing how things grow wild without help but when you want some in the yard at home it seems an uphill struggle. To wit, I've spent years rescuing wild Iris's from the mowers...
  15. Gillie's Tales
    On the Erriff when a wild fish is released they give you a hatchery reared ranched salmon as a replacement from their hatchery program. A German man with me caught a wild fish yesterday which was his first one ever. We released it and I explained to him that he would get a frozen ranched fish...
  16. General Board
    Links between wild salmon stocks and the Scottish aquaculture industry are to be investigated under a new project launched by the Scottish government. The Salmon Interactions Workstream is to deliver recommendations for minimising any associated impacts on wild salmon stocks in Scotland. The...
  17. General Board
    well just a coinsidence that I happened to be in the next room, but The owners at my work had a meeting at work today with the shadow secretary for the rural economy and connectivity Fergus Ewing I know I shouldn't have been listening but for some reason the pre meeting talk was by him on about...
  18. Off Topic Lounge
    The last of last season's Pheasant going in a pie with mushrooms,white wine and wild garlic sauce. In a weeks time the garlic will be dying back..
  19. General Board
    It appears to be the settled view among anglers that salmon farming has caused atrocious damage to natural eco-systems and almost week-in, week-out, that view receives support in the angling press. Yet, apart from the occasional story, none of the criticisms voiced there impacts to any extent on...
  20. News & Features
    Marine Scotland Monitoring the Effect of Noise on Marine Environments Worth a look as involves wild salmon stocks.......
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