Very interesting presentations and pretty clear to a layman such as myself. I'm glad at least SOMETHING is being attempted; here in Wales we have Natural Resources Wales and are obliged to pay the Rod- licence. In return we are told that stocking of migratory fish is forbidden- even to my local club who had converted an old riverside mill into a hatchery with huge effort and used to stock salmon from fish taken from the river alongside. No longer. I now do my salmon fishing in Northumberland or Scotland. Still, NRW tell us they are 'monitoring' the situation; I could save them the bother. Sadly I can see no prospect that the Scottish assembly will permit the culling of furry cuddly seals to assist the 'rich, tweed-wearing salmon fishermen' . In-river predation here and in Weardale and a Tweed tributary I frequent has reached farcical proportions with fish-eating ducks and cormorants running rampant and a licensing scheme to enable any culling of them so ludicrous as to be beyond parody. Anyway, I wish you all the best.
Very interesting presentations and pretty clear to a layman such as myself. I'm glad at least SOMETHING is being attempted; here in Wales we have Natural Resources Wales and are obliged to pay the Rod- licence. In return we are told that stocking of migratory fish is forbidden- even to my local club who had converted an old riverside mill into a hatchery with huge effort and used to stock salmon from fish taken from the river alongside. No longer. I now do my salmon fishing in Northumberland or Scotland. Still, NRW tell us they are 'monitoring' the situation; I could save them the bother.
Sadly I can see no prospect that the Scottish assembly will permit the culling of furry cuddly seals to assist the 'rich, tweed-wearing salmon fishermen' . In-river predation here and in Weardale and a Tweed tributary I frequent has reached farcical proportions with fish-eating ducks and cormorants running rampant and a licensing scheme to enable any culling of them so ludicrous as to be beyond parody.
Anyway, I wish you all the best.