Would members please note there will be No Season Extension for salmon fishing this year and the season will finish as normal on September 30th.
Given the very difficult year experienced with fungal disease and the introduction of the emergency bye -law restricting salmon fishing to ‘Fly Only and Catch and Release on July 22nd I am sure members will feel this is the right approach.
What could be some good news for once, reported in the S&TC-UK blog:
From 1st September the Salmon and Trout Association has a new name:
Salmon & Trout Conservation UK (S&TC UK).
For more details, click here.
Slightly old news but of interest nevertheless –
The Environment Agency has awarded a landmark fisheries contract to the Angling Trust. This announcement follows a “rigorous competitive process” and is part of the EA’s “continued drive towards greater partnership working leading to thriving fisheries and angling throughout England”.
From 2014 –
Dr Andrew King of Exeter University is using DNA sampling to track sea trout in the south-west of England as part of an Atlantic Aquatic Resource Conservation (Aarc) project.
For anyone in the market for a new landing net, Fastnet have some on clearance at the moment.
Widespread fish death on Kola peninsular possibly due to UDN according to the the Barents Observer.
The moratorium takes effect on 17 August and will cover several rivers, among them the Kola, Kitsa and Tuloma river basin.
As an aid to understanding what might have been going on in the Dart for the past couple of years, the following link is to an abstract of a paper that gives a more detailed pathology of UDN.
Ulcerative dermal necrosis (UDN) in wild salmonids
There is a suggestion that the disease we have been observing may not be UDN. However, the article above appears to describe precisely the appearance and consequences of what we have been seeing.
The good news is that at least one shoal of clean sea trout has been spotted in the river recently.