The Tay District Salmon Fisheries Board have appealed to anglers not to sell their catches of salmon from the river Tay. A outright ban is being considered.
Mr Andrew Cairns, the Board chairman, said, “The Tay Board strongly supports this measure and requests that even if it is not law in 2002 anglers should not sell rod-caught salmon, removing the incentive for killing excessive numbers of fish.”
Tay salmon anglers are also being asked to return every other fish to the river, or to donate it to the Board for egg stripping in the autumn.
This is just one of a number of conservation measures to boost runs of spring salmon.
Anglers who return fish will be rewarded with a special sweatshirt.
