Salmon Catch Cost Thousands

Two Cardiff men have been ordered to pay a combined total of pounds 2,100 in fines and costs after pleading guilty to fishing offences on the River Taff.

Rodney Charles Morgan of Melville Avenue, St Mellons, and Nigel Mark Sheppard of Meadowsweet Drive, St Mellons, also had to forfeit their fishing equipment.

The court was told that in November last year the Agency received information from a member of the public reporting individuals fishing by rod and line on the River Taff at Blackweir.

The following day agency officers caught Morgan and Sheppard fishing, catching four large female salmon.

Steve Barker, agency senior enforcement officer, said: “The four female salmon destroyed in this instance deprived the River Taff of some five per cent of its potential spawning stock.”

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