Fishing for the truth about angling in Scotland
A SCOTTISH fish farm company has paid out more than £13,000 compensation in a unique out of court settlement after admitting it accidentally released juvenile salmon into a river system with a risk of polluting the wild strain of fish. Mainstream Scotland, a subsidiary of the Norwegian salmon conglomerate CERMAQ, paid the money to the …
Continue ReadingLoch Lomond angling committee trumpet “best start” to spring salmon season for 20 years.
Continue ReadingSHARK populations off Scotland’s south-west coast are now at a “critical low” angling conservationists warned today as results from last weekend’s massive tagging exercise were revealed. Some 215 volunteer anglers from all over the UK travelled to the Solway coast to take part in Sharkatag 2009, a three-day project to catch, tag and release various…
Continue ReadingTHE significance of the new course for secondary pupils at Blairgowrie should not be underestimated, writes Gordon Mack. Angling contributes massively to the Scottish economy. Freshwater fishing brings in £113m a year and supports 2800 jobs. Sea angling, the number one coastal recreation activity, is even bigger, with an estimated £150m and a similar number…
Continue ReadingNATURALIST Professor David Bellamy yesterday launched the first exams for game angling at a Scottish secondary school to a volley of criticism from animal rights supporters. Professor Bellamy said the move to introduce Scottish Qualifications Authority (SQA) from S3 onwards helps establish Scotland as “the open university for field sports”, and also educates children how…
Continue ReadingWe thought it might be interesting to look at how the five venues in the World Fly Fishing Championships performed this week in terms of rods and catches when tested by the best anglers in the world. It doesn’t make very comfortable reading for Loch Leven, home of fly-fishing and the so-called queen of Scottish…
Continue ReadingSCOTLAND finished among the medal winners for the first time at the World Fly Fishing Championships yesterday after an amazing final day team recovery. Hosting the ‘blue riband’ event, the Scottish team under manager George Mackenzie rallied to climb from 9th place on Tuesday to take the bronze medal behind England and France at the…
Continue ReadingHOSTS Scotland need a dramatic turn of fortunes today after struggling badly on the second day of the World Fly Fishing Championships. Their position on the team leaderboard crashed from fourth to ninth behind all the other home nations. Hopes had risen that home waters would prove beneficial to the Scottish anglers, but lochs Awe…
Continue ReadingSKYE was majestic last week as only Skye can be when the sun pours down endlessly from the heavens. Even at midnight it was still shining, casting an eerie orange glow from below the horizon into the velvet blue northern sky. We were sereneded by cuckoo, curlew, oystercatcher and lark. Snipe thrummed in the evening…
Continue ReadingHome team hopes are high of medal success in this year’s World Fly Fishing Championships which for the first time take place in Scotland.
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