Why the price of salmon is soaring... and the reason may put you off this wonderful fish for life
I have records for my beat that go back 20-odd years that show that in 1995 we caught 960 fish,' he says. 'By 2015, the number had fallen to just 27 — and it was the same last year. In Russia I caught more than that in a single week.'
This year the number of salmon taken on his stretch of the river will be zero. The reason is simple — Mr Cosh has closed it to anglers, feeling he can no longer charge fishermen for the chance to catch something that simply is not there.
He is in no doubt what is to blame for its decline — the hundreds of salmon farms that have sprung up in sea lochs and estuaries around Scotland's beautiful west coast, polluting the water.
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