Calls for action as decline is seen as evidence of harm caused by climate crisis, pollution and fish farming
The data has alarmed fisheries experts and ecologists. Wild salmon and trout are a keystone species for many mammals and birds, and a plunging fish population harms other creatures such as otter, osprey and mergansers, damaging the wider ecosystem.
Alan Wells, the director of Fisheries Management Scotland, urged the Scottish government to accelerate its new strategies for enhancing and protecting salmon stocks. “The latest figures underline just how grave the situation has become. We are urging the government to deliver its existing commitments without delay, and to go much further in all the areas where they have the power to make a difference,” he said.
Since the 1990s anglers in Scotland have returned their catch to the river under a voluntary conservation code that is heavily policed by fisheries organisations and ghillies, the experts who guide anglers on many fishing beats.plant millions of native trees Some fisheries have investigated restocking heavily depopulated rivers with young salmon bred in hatcheries from local wild stocks, although the strategy remains controversial because of uncertainty about their survival rates., a river that empties into Loch Carron in Wester Ross, to the north of Skye, believe their reintroduction of hatchery fish has saved its wild salmon population from near extinction.
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