One-Fish Limit to Hold on Famed River
Posted on: Sunday, 13 January 2008, 09:00 CST
A one-fish limit is to be imposed on one of Scotland's most famous salmon rivers.
The regulations are to be announced next week, The Scotsman reports. They would require anglers to throw back the first salmon they catch and to take only one fish a day.
Under current rules, anglers can take home half their catch.
The Tay, which flows into the sea at Perth, is Scotland's longest river and has the largest watershed in Britain. Anglers pay as much as $800 to fish some beats on the river.
Duncan Glass of the Tay Ghillies Association said his group and the Tay Salmon Fisheries Board and the Tay Foundation are trying to preserve salmon stocks in the river while not driving anglers away.
We don't want to chase anglers away to places like Norway and Russia, so if we allow them to take one fish home that's something, Glass said.
He said that the percentage of salmon returning to the Tay to spawn is below that of other Scottish rivers.
Source: United Press International
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