Fishing for the truth about angling in Scotland
Wild salmon: S&TA nine-point action plan for survival THE WILD salmon lobby today accused fish farmers and the Government of holding a sword of Damocles over the head of one of Scotland’s most iconic natural resources. In the latest of a series of increasingly belligerent attacks on the multi-million pound aquaculture industry, game fishery campaigners…
Continue ReadingTHE SCOTTISH Government is hit today with yet another broadside from the wild salmon lobby over its policy on fish farming. A major study of peer-reviewed scientific evidence by the Salmon & Trout Association, the UK’s leading game fish conservation charity, reveals what it calls “incontrovertible proof” of the threat to wild fish as a…
Continue ReadingINCREASING tension between Scottish wild salmon interests, and the Government and multi-million pound aquaculture industry, is becoming more apparent in the wake of last week’s Loch Lochy smolt escape. The Government has since claimed that the salmon farming industry and wild fish interests are cooperating to take a “huge step forward” in containment and make…
Continue ReadingSCOTTISH aquaculture interests today apologised for the Loch Lochy smolt escape and pledged to work with Government fish health inspectors to investigate the causes and improve staff training. Marine Harvest, owner of the Lochy farm also gave an undertaking that it would “co-operate fully with wild fisheries interests to re-capture any fish” it could. Gideon…
Continue ReadingRETAIL GIANTS like Tesco were today urged to recognise the environmental damage caused by salmon farms which fail to prevent accidental releases of fish into the wild, following an escape of up to 100,000 smolts into Loch Lochy, near Fort William, Scotland. In a thinly-veiled call for a boycott of salmon farmers, such as Marine…
Continue ReadingIn My Opinion EFFORTS by a group of dissident Loch Lomond anglers to bring about greater transparency in the administration of salmon and trout fishing on the famous loch, failed last night. More than 100 members of the historic Loch Lomond Angling Improvement Association (LLAIA) packed into Partick Burgh Halls in Glasgow for the club’s…
Continue ReadingSEARCHING questions about the financial administration of salmon and sea trout angling on Loch Lomond are expected to dominate tonight’s annual meeting of the historic club which runs game fishing on the famous water. A tense meeting of members of the Loch Lomond Angling Improvement Association (LLAIA) in Glasgow is anticipated when officials present the…
Continue ReadingCLYDE in the Classroom, the environmental and fishery science education programme for children run by the Clyde River Foundation and now in its 10th year, has broken through the 10,000 total of pupil participants. The new record figure was reached this month when more than 1400 youngsters attended a series of events at Glasgow Science…
Continue ReadingTOPE will be the main target for the Scotland’s second Sharkatag weekend, scheduled for this June. The event, which last summer attracted more than 200 volunteer participants and generated more than £40,000 for the local economy in the Solway area of south-west Scotland, was recognised as the biggest sea angling conservation exercise ever mounted in…
Continue ReadingSCOTLAND’S first shark project officer is now at work. James Thorburn, a marine biologist who studied at Stirling and Heriot-Watt universities, has a strong track record of involvement in Scottish research projects. His appointment, as part of a £52,000 support package from Scottish Natural Heritage and the Argyll and Islands LEADER programme, comes at…
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