Fishing for the truth about angling in Scotland
A FURIOUS row has broken out between the head of Scotland’s salmon farming industry and the administrators of wild salmon fishing over a denial that salmon production is to blame for declining stocks in the nation’s rivers. A claim that salmon numbers were already in decline in Scottish waters before the advent of farm cages…
Continue ReadingAN AYRSHIRE farm which allowed 50,000 litres of slurry to escape into the River Irvine and one of its most prolific tributaries, has paid more than £7100 in damages to a Darvel Angling Club for killing thousands of fish and wiping out its juvenile stocks. Adult salmon and juvenile fry, sea and brown trout were…
Continue ReadingA PETITION calling for the urgent relocation of salmon farms away from the estuaries of major salmon rivers in Scotland has raised more than 9000 signatures in less than two weeks. The campaign to halt the spread of sea lice infestations which are harming wild fish stocks, has been launched by the Salmon and Trout…
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