News: conservation, legislation and fly fishing across the UK
Wild Atlantic salmon is now endangered in UK waters, catch limits are tightening across Scotland and Ireland, and the pressure on rivers from pollution, abstraction and habitat loss has never been greater. For anyone who fishes for wild trout, sea trout or salmon, staying informed has never mattered more.
Trout & Salmon’s news section covers the stories that shape the sport – conservation developments, regulatory changes, river conditions, hatchery programmes, fishing access disputes and the environmental battles being fought on behalf of the fish we love. We report across England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland, with a close eye on the science and the policy driving change.
This is news written by anglers who understand what’s at stake – on the riverbank and in the legislation that governs it.
Television presenter Robson Green is supporting a conservation campaign for Aberdeenshire’s River Dee
Anglers are fearing an 'existential threat' following Environment Agency proposals to markedly expand mandatory catch and release rules for salmon and sea trout
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Robert Harper, a River Dee gillie with 49 years' dedicated service, has won a prestigious double at this year's Scottish Gamekeepers Association awards
A salmon parr discovered in the River Don represents the first evidence of natural breeding in the waterway since the early 1800s
Scottish ministers have brushed aside urgent warnings about wild salmon to approve the country's first semi-closed fish farm in the heart of a national park
Ireland's River Blackwater has been devastated by what experts believe was a toxic chemical spill that killed as many as an estimated 46,000 fish
Newly appointed Wild Trout Trust chairman signals ambitious expansion to meet the mounting challenges facing Britain's wild trout populations
FishPal has opened access to six Irish and Northern Irish fisheries, including a River Strule beat that has never welcomed public anglers before
Fisheries Management Scotland has released a film highlighting how simple changes to angling practices can improve salmon survival rates