This makes me very sad. I’d be cutting back on heavy trawler fishing, those big factory ships. Let stocks recover, or face a future with no fish. Choose wisely.
Ban commercial fishing. Idgaf about the economy. It’s not worth it.
We need to remove fish barriers. So much would be done in this area to help salmon. These measures can be done without bothering communities such as people who live in flood prone areas and farmers.
Not much mentioned about how some ‘anglers’ take way too many fish home with them instead of practicing catch and release.
Yeah it’s sad to see the salmon disappear but look how much more silage we got!
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The reduction in salmon numbers is down to many factors …natural predation by increasing numbers of seals,herons cormorants and dolphins..disease….pollution and removal of gravel,poaching in the rivers and at sea….angling should only be on a catch and release basis.Numbers increased during covid might have been due to the fact that there were fewer flights out of Greenland and Iceland …no market access.Supertrawlers have nothing to do with the decline neither have the Spanish….We need to increase breeding in hatcheries and protect habitat and reduce pollution and remove barriers for to increase numbers.
Isn’t most fish almost gone? We’ve successfully overfished the entire ocean.
Was talking to a guy who tracks salmon in Glen river (or Lackagh river) up in Donegal. Said 20/30 years ago you would have thousands pass the river. This year they had 12.
He blamed lice from the fishers round the headland in Lough Swilly, feeding grounds moving further northwards with warming waters, and an increase in the local seal population.
It’s a real tragedy. There really needs to be a push to save them.
Thanks to the romantic figure of the scofflaw fisherman with his romantic monofilament nets, the swine.
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This makes me very sad. I’d be cutting back on heavy trawler fishing, those big factory ships. Let stocks recover, or face a future with no fish. Choose wisely.
Ban commercial fishing. Idgaf about the economy. It’s not worth it.
We need to remove fish barriers. So much would be done in this area to help salmon. These measures can be done without bothering communities such as people who live in flood prone areas and farmers.
Not much mentioned about how some ‘anglers’ take way too many fish home with them instead of practicing catch and release.
Yeah it’s sad to see the salmon disappear but look how much more silage we got!
/s
The reduction in salmon numbers is down to many factors …natural predation by increasing numbers of seals,herons cormorants and dolphins..disease….pollution and removal of gravel,poaching in the rivers and at sea….angling should only be on a catch and release basis.Numbers increased during covid might have been due to the fact that there were fewer flights out of Greenland and Iceland …no market access.Supertrawlers have nothing to do with the decline neither have the Spanish….We need to increase breeding in hatcheries and protect habitat and reduce pollution and remove barriers for to increase numbers.
Isn’t most fish almost gone? We’ve successfully overfished the entire ocean.
Was talking to a guy who tracks salmon in Glen river (or Lackagh river) up in Donegal. Said 20/30 years ago you would have thousands pass the river. This year they had 12.
He blamed lice from the fishers round the headland in Lough Swilly, feeding grounds moving further northwards with warming waters, and an increase in the local seal population.
It’s a real tragedy. There really needs to be a push to save them.
Thanks to the romantic figure of the scofflaw fisherman with his romantic monofilament nets, the swine.