A NEW publication summarising the state of Scotland’s salmon fisheries was launched yesterday and followers of the continued revitalisation of many of our river stocks, would do well to get hold of a copy and have a read.

A new super body, Marine Scotland is set to go live on April 1, according to the Government.

THE salmon and sea trout lobby has finally got its teeth firmly into the wildlife campaign to reintroduce beavers to the wild in Scotland . . .

The conviction record against Scottish Water for waste water offences since 1996.

Anglers on the Rotten Calder a tributary of the Clyde in south Lanarkshire were sampling the sweet scent of success today after receiving £4000 in an out-of-court compensation payment from Scottish Water for dumping sewage sludge into their river and wiping out brown trout and salmon stocks.

ANOTHER shark tagging marathon beckons this summer, thanks to those industrious folk at the Scottish Sea Angling Conservation Network.

A second case of infectious salmon anaemia hits Shetland

Comforting to see fisheries minister Richard Lochhead up at Portarch Bridge on Deeside today at the opening of the 2009 salmon season acknowledging the huge impact angling has on local economies.  “Recent years have been enormously prosperous for salmon catches in Scotland, bringing good news to a number of rural communities in these difficult economic times,” [...]

The mood was sombre at the Sunday Herald’s 10th anniversary party as the Scottish media peers over the precipice and into financial oblivion.

Full version of a story which first appeared in The Herald on 10 January 2008
ONE of Scotland’s most iconic angling prizes, the Malloch Challenge Trophy for the
heaviest salmon caught by fly-fishing, is being reinstated this year with the aim of
helping to promote fish conservation.
The solid silver leaping fish, valued at £15,000, was first awarded in [...]