Conservation bodies have urged ministers to take action to try and halt a decline of wild salmon in Scotland’s rivers following a recent report the numbers found in the River Tay over last few years were “as low as they have ever been”.
Statistics released by the Scottish Government last week showed the total reported rod catch of wild salmon in Scotland for 2021 was 35,693, the lowest on record and just 75 per cent of the previous five-year average.
The figures came after Tay District Salmon Fisheries Board fisheries director Dr David Summers confirmed to members during the group’s most recent annual public meeting the number caught on the Tay in 2021 was down to somewhere between 4000 and 5000.
