No clear cause for salmonid declines on Scotland’s west coast rivers

The authors of a report on restoration of West coast salmon and sea trout fisheries for the Tripartite Working Group have concluded that the causes of the decline in salmon and sea trout numbers have not yet been clearly identified.

Report on decline in salmon and trout stocks a is a whitewasha

Salmon and sea trout fishermen condemned as a whitewash a Scottish government report yesterday that concluded that the reasons for the decline in wild salmon stocks was undefined and that there was nothing that can be done to restore them.