The bailiffs on my local river wouldn't know a net in the water if there jobs depended on it usely alcoholics that sit up to get pissed up and it's sad to see that's how run yer local no management comes into it at all

No on the scale yous portray your greed for money and the biggest threat to wild salmon and sea trout is the farming shit yous don't talk about you will never catch a good poacher you won't use a gill net on a flowing river different nets for different tasks so know what your talking about FARMED salmon have destroyed wild salmon stock FACTS anyone saying others wise continue on tour LSD it may still occur but if there wild why should you have to pay to fish for a wild fish

Sanquhar when foot and mouth movement restrictions were. Weren't you and a couple of your colleagues caught red handed poaching salmon 🤔 Fecking hypocrite HENDERSON THE TRUTH

More sound bite bollocks

Everybody has done a great job turning salmon fishing into a rich man’s sport even trout fishing is becoming an increasingly expensive sport

Looks like a finger print.

How can one make any conclusions when the models haven't been validated?. Why is there no focus on the main threats to salmon, for instance the rising numbers of seals and commerants.

As a volunteer I’ve thrown Chum and Coho carcasses into streams at direction of fisheries biologists. Frozen, spawners from fish hatcheries. These frozen fish are stiff, and I thought they’d fail to be retained by woody debris. Bilby and Bisson have each noted the importance of woody debris in retaining carcasses. I used cotton string, and tied two together at the tail. Maybe 20cm of string between. Hypotheses was that as they tumbled along stream the string would be more likely to catch, and be retained, and least long enough to thaw. If like the Norwegians you decide to remove pinks they might be an available resource, assuming you have freezer capacity. We were not re-introducing them in summer. Later in the fall, or early winter, when decomposing fish could be expected and found. Western Washington State.

such an important vid my friend, a solution without resolve

Great research and a very plausible hypothesis. Im interested to as to where those numbers of fish are being landed or processed? Someone will know something as wild salmon are so valuable. One would think they would have to turn up in restaurants.!?

What a load of bollocks. The greatest crime is the support of politicians including the f'ing greens of the commercial farming of salmon with the f'ing cages at virtually every river mouth on the west coast of Scotland. The enormous sealice burden that is produced has decimated virtually all the parr and smolts that make it to the river mouths. So fishery management Scotland can go fuck itself for trying to blame river poaching as the root cause of our salmon decline Loch eilt was one of the most prolific seatrout lochs in Scotland in the 60' s and 70s it consistently year after year produced at a minimum 1000 plus caught. One if the first salmon farms in Scotland was placed at the mouth within 2 years the catches dropped to virtually zero. Now seatrout don't travel to Greenland but lived around the coast yet due to the f'ing overburdened of sealice it has wiped out the population of seatrout so what in the hell does it do to the young salmon who in their earlier part of life spend round the river mouths

There used to be so many salmon in the tyne that poor people protested because they were sick of having to eat them. I make this point not because I don't think poaching is a problem (given reduced numbers and therefore the relative potential impact) but because we are missing the point. The real threat and decline to wild salmon comes from apparently legal practices and corporations. Nothing serious is done about the root causes and problems but hey let's get people arguing about poaching.

Fish eating birds, seals etc

Her droning voice....would make me jump in and drown myself.

Take down every dam,weir

The real crime is the wild salmon trying to get past the sealice coming off the fish farms

Stuart, excellent work and presentation with an honest appraisal of progress and the challenges regarding getting to reliable and accurate data. This looks like a great potential AI project for a University student at SCENE (Glasgow University) or similar. I would love to talk directly with you further on your experience here as I am a firm believer of obtaining and using quantitative data regarding fish population. C. Liddell Chairman LLAIA

Poaching ,netting river mouths ,seals ,birds etc has little effect on salmon populations .commercial fishing for sandeels ,herring ,krill etc does and in turn affects birds an sends them inland to search for food (smolts ) seals have always been around estuarys at salmon running times thats natural but maybe there are more now because there is little to eat at sea. We have had 30 years of conservation measures ,C& R and other restrictions on anglers but the downhill race still continues and it will continue every time we buy fish ,or meat that is fed fishbased products and i suspect every time we create waste ,flush the toilet ,water the garden etc ,birds an seals have never been the problem the problem is us.

We manage deer because they are prolific and destroy woodland. Seals are in massive numbers destroying mackerel populations but also salmon I think seal population needs managed. But the real problem at the heart is the trawling in the sea and until the gov does something about that then populations will continue to decline

Ok here’s something if the permits were cheaper people would buy them most fishery’s are snobs who want £500-1000 per outing that’s mental fines only around £200-300. Then we have seals. Commarants. Goosanders. Fishing boats. Etc that take thousands. Then there’s the horrible farms that pollute and put disease into the natural salmon. All the government and bailiffs are interested in is cash end of

Not a mention of the increase population of merganser, goosander and of course seals.

Not discussed, so maybe not monitored. On the west coast of North America coho and steelhead juveniles typically live in stream for more than one year. In years with pink runs in a stream these juveniles experience increased growth during the spawning season and after, and in the spring when pinks emerge from gravel and immediately head to sea. In the summer/fall juveniles eat errant pink eggs, then later the invertebrates that feed on the pinks’ carcasses. It is a huge nutrition pulse.

Maybe, pink salmon would harbour disease. Worrying about juvenile pinks competing with juvenile Atlantic salmon is not reasonable. Juvenile pinks once they absorbed their yolk, wiggle out of the gravel and immediately go to sea. They’re not free swimming in streams for more than a day or two. Longer of course in the truly long Yukon River. Not much though. If juvenile pinks had an effect on other juvenile salmonids in streams it would be as food for 1 year plus aged salmonids. The biomass of Atlantic salmon and other fish should have a distinct uptick during March or April in streams with pinks.

Marvellous film. But, of course, sad. I am 80 so remember the huge net catches on the river lee. This film does give hope.

I have to say your videos are absolutely brilliant. But they need a push somehow on you tube. Maybe contact a KZbin specialist for help. You've an important message that people are interested in but not seeing. I only wish fishery management in Ireland was as good. Well done

Poaching means to fish / hunt on land or rivers where a person does not have permision too now here in England its not the job for fosheries inspectors aka the Environment agency to go around checking permits or day tickets thats the job of the riparian owner of piscatorial rights of the club / syndacate baillif,as long as a person is fishing within the local byelaws for that area everything is hunky dory.Now if a person in england has no fishing licesne maybe killed a spring fish before 16th june the kill date or kept a accidently foul hooked or delibrate foul hooked fish then the e/a officer can act using his now diminished powers ...under the salmon and freshwater fisheries act 1975 netting snatching (FOUL HOOKING) fish is criminal offence so there for not technically poaching-the down side ot environment agency officers here in the north east of england is they DO NOT FISH some are vegans some support LGBGT and even worse some are activists and subscribe to terror groups such as green peace and friends of the earth some supported other terror groups like BLM yet these "People" only by definition are some how in charge of fishing.They clearly hate fishierman the e./a top people some are decendents of 70s 80s activists....Now if i fish without a license i can be fined upto £1500 or more maybe on the day have vehicle impounded if i shoplift from tescos i get a on the spot caution now correct me if im wrong but the laws fecked up....if i net the river with a multi mono superstrand gill net 5 inch mesh i can get 3-6 months in gaol the slammer if a nonce downloads bad images of kids from the net he / she can get probation again correct me if im wrong but the laws of the lands are screwed up big style...environment agency are known liars and this can be proven time and time again they also hype merc hants who work with the likes of the so called left wing angling trust who are now also known for hammering censoring free speach on their social media platforms. My area my rivers Tees wear tyne yorkshire esk we use wear and esk as examples as tyne tees only got clean enough for salmon about 40 years ago,wear Durham famous for snatching esk whitby famous for snatching gaffing and netting both support yowge numbers of salmon esp wear esks a tiny stream 25 miles long.Sea trout numbers declined but past few seasons on wear and esk have been superb not quite as good as the olde days but superb fishing salmon in the wear started to increase around the first years of the 1990s so wear gone from best sea trout river in england and wales to a full on salmon river with sea trout ....2 seasons back on a small 800 yard free section in one day with anglers coming for a few casts few hours between them al day long visiting anglers caught between them 120+ fish mostly salmon thats not including the syndacate water that joins they have 1.7 miles of fishing ! that week seen well over 500 fish caught,not unusual given water to catch a bag full of fish.....easy to catch a few sea trout or a few salmon when the waters falling out on the wear.....but now we have all north east rivers opened for salmon fishing with removal of obstructions dams weirs and no pollution which means all rivers that flow to the ouse then into the humber now get fish so northern england east coast has really opened up OK some of the humber rivers and theys a shed load aint what ya call 100% clean but every season salmon numbers are some how increasining on waters that still suffer pollution on what ever scale.

seals,cormorants, pollution and fish farms these are major problems that have more bearing on fish numbers

that fish pass on the almond at cramond wont work. they need the entrance to point downstream so they have the flow, they will have a lot of trouble finding that entrance.

At circa 3mins in you handed out a few tips for beginners.....

commercial salmon fishing is not closed in Ireland!

This is great information. Has there been any research ino how these fish would be landed or processed? It seems like alot of fish like that would be noticed by someone somewhere.

This won't work the only way is to not have people involved in catching them and trying to save them . They been here for thousands of years until man involvement started their interest in them .

Im from New Zealand where no one owns the river, trout, or Salmon. I hate poaching

the real reason the game keepers keep going on aboot poachers is not because they care aboot salmon. but because they want all the salmon for rich people who pay massive amounts of money to fish. Rivers belong to nobody and everybody. as soon as them toffs catch a salmon it's on the dinner table. why should we be left out just because we are not a toff.

When people stop eating salmon that's when numbers will increase. They been less every year for last 100 years, no owns these salmon, there wild they been fishing them for centuries . Its OK to fish them if you have fishing rights. Commercial fishing is making these extinct.

They can all talk the talk but in the meantime migratory fish numbers plummet. As for SEPA, don't get me started on them, I've reported sewage pollution many times on the Nith yet they have done nothing.

Absolute cop out! And what a-holes these water bailiff's seem aswell, just puppets on a wage. Poacher's are not the problem, the real reasons for the decline in numbers are poor governmental decisions, obstructions to migration, pollution and fish farms.

Grouse moors, too many Red Deer and those tax dodging landowners….get rid of them. Then the Salmon have a chance.

If norway take guns away from ukraine, russia help you to take pinksalmons in autumn, but that russians are same, which have died in war from boris johnsson's beginning the west's sins to the soviet union ukraine; have you rainbowtrouts or pride?

Excellent video. I, being a layman, had no difficulty understanding all this. I appreciate very much your putting this on KZbin.

The corrupt, inept Scottish government is the problem.

Salmon farms, pollution, dams and bird control....if you know you know. But the best way to protect anything is just leave them alone. If humanity failed tomorrow salmon would still be here in a thousand years

Until you get rid of ALL fish farms wild salmon and wild trout are completely finished. GREED is the problem here pure GREED.

Complete waste of time and money given the amount of illegal single strand mono gill netting going on and a seal population that is at it's highest in human history due to their main predator getting fat dumb and happy.

This is the wrong end of the stick salmon farming industry is the only thing that is destroying our native population s

These projects and others like it need to be pushed more to the public. The lack of knowledge people have on just how important our waters are is frightening. Keep up the good work👍

Where are the leftie so called nature lovers now?

Penalty for illegal salmon fishing - c£200 (if caught and prosecuted) Cost of a day's legal salmon fishing on a decent beat of prime Scottish river - £1000 Anyone else detect a problem here?

This is largely window-dressing. The main crimes against salmon are perpetrated by fish farms, commercial sea fishing, and idiot governments protecting seals/otters/beavers. But at least the second bailiff in the film rightly highlighted the distinction between different scales of poaching, the worst of which do constitute a serious problem. As for the ludicrously inadequate penalties handed out at court, just tell them the poacher called the salmon a racist/homophobic/sexist/transist name - fast track to prison!

No fish farms on the east coast…..