If that chap was around today, Ian, he would be in tears, despite all the fine words, it`s only gone downhill since he wrote a quarter of a century ago. The salmon has been let down by politicians and scientists.
The politicians portray salmon fishing as elitist in a bid to get easy votes, the political power is in the big cities where they only know salmon as that cheap, pink stuff in the supermarket. And cheap food from fish farms is a vote winner.
The scientists are quite happy to research the salmon to death, publishing endless scientific papers to impress their colleagues but achieving little else. If they find a solution to the problem, they`re out of a…
I remember the tagging that went on in the 90’s, with guidance from the scientific communities that were helping Scottish rivers.
I also remember occasional tagged fish turning up in an adjacent river. The tags were all recorded and passed to the scientific community for analysis.
Nothing came of that other than the colloquial evidence I mention above.
Mr Chattaway had some great ideas, based on his own practical measures.
I had a break from regular fishing a few years ago, two blank weeks of spring fishing on a premier Spey salmon beat. My fishing friends were moving on in their careers, the blanks were a catalyst for them too. It wasn’t worth gettin…
I’m not a scientist, but in general fish tend to “shoal”, I hint at the possibilities in my example, supporting your comment above. There must be some “at sea“ mixing in the feeding grounds. Hence the spread.
If that chap was around today, Ian, he would be in tears, despite all the fine words, it`s only gone downhill since he wrote a quarter of a century ago. The salmon has been let down by politicians and scientists.
The politicians portray salmon fishing as elitist in a bid to get easy votes, the political power is in the big cities where they only know salmon as that cheap, pink stuff in the supermarket. And cheap food from fish farms is a vote winner.
The scientists are quite happy to research the salmon to death, publishing endless scientific papers to impress their colleagues but achieving little else. If they find a solution to the problem, they`re out of a…
Here we are 2022, in decline.
I remember the tagging that went on in the 90’s, with guidance from the scientific communities that were helping Scottish rivers.
I also remember occasional tagged fish turning up in an adjacent river. The tags were all recorded and passed to the scientific community for analysis.
Nothing came of that other than the colloquial evidence I mention above.
Mr Chattaway had some great ideas, based on his own practical measures.
I had a break from regular fishing a few years ago, two blank weeks of spring fishing on a premier Spey salmon beat. My fishing friends were moving on in their careers, the blanks were a catalyst for them too. It wasn’t worth gettin…