Enforcement: Crimes Against Salmon - Our Wild Salmon Series | Fisheries Management Scotland

[@Sean-fb7cy]

The fisheries officers In Ireland have been on the fiddle for decades. One of them described themselves as the best poachers 😊

[@spazzymacgee5648]

So true, balifs local to me have admitted to letting their mates poach.

[@arestew1171]

This is all great , but the big picture is stop the commercial fishery off of Greenland taking 30 tones a year … from Canadian , UK , US rivers , wake up

[@spazzymacgee5648]

Name of fishery?

[@mrperfect1000.]

No word about the seals that are taking most of the fish not only salmon.

[@robertgallacher7214]

@@ssergorp7105 The trouble with that outlook is the main predator of the seal no longer predates on them. Due to man no longer harvesting them seal numbers are higher in UK waters than at any time in the last 100 years. No one would advocate killing them but when we are at the stage of vaccinating them against natural illnesses that would reduce their numbers it is time to think about some form of birth control. All the harbour masters on the big rivers used to be paid to shoot them, now those same rivers have colonies of over 1000 seals at times,the Tay and Eden estuaries along with the Ythan are prime examples of this. Maybe if the wrong persons pet dog gets killed like the two that already have been on the Ythan something will change. What habitat loss are you talking about ? Most rivers are in better condition than they have ever been since the industrial revolution, the Clyde and my local River Leven on the east coast being perfect examples where effluent and industrial pollution have all but disappeared. Inshore gill netting is a huge problem, small scale netters from other countries that are not aware of our laws or realise the chance of getting caught is tiny due to Marine Scotland spending more money on chair warmers than enforcement personnel and in many areas where Bass are present small to medium scale operations using illegal single strand mono gill netting targeting Bass get a large amount of Salmon and Seatrout bycatch that doesn't go back, the Solway river systems bear the brunt of that .

[@jimfraser734]

@@ssergorp7105bollox

[@jimfraser734]

@@ssergorp7105Really. Seals are millions of years old 😂

[@whitetroutchannel]

did theyve have seal sancturies back then? nursing pups and sick seals is affecting natural selection those creatures would have died in the wild without human intervention, seals where afraid of people when i was young now they climb into boats looking for fish

[@JAaurora2419]

Let’s go clubbing again

[@appsuccess]

Poachers are the least of the problem facing Scottish salmon. The procrastination of the Scottish government to take any action at all, except for `further consultations ` concerning the real challenges facing Salmon, is the death knell in their survival

[@kevinwright3735]

Also it's not the poaching taking from the river, the netting on the sea is the worst and that should be bland but money talks

[@whitetroutchannel]

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

[@Dougtroutfisher.4046]

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

[@davidpriestley4437]

Save our salmon... come on SNP wake up and help your Scotland. I spend good money on fishing ,hotels , gillies, tackle, bit of shopping , restaurants ect. So sad to see the rivers in such decline.

[@andrewshepherd1579]

They have the cheek to talk about poachers and wanting higher fines yet want to charge a fisherman a rip off price of about 80 quid a day with little chance of catching anything and you cannot even KEEP IT! Absolute robbery

[@williammclauchlan2610]

Two separate entities,one is totally illegal the other is a choice.

[@andrewshepherd1579]

@@williammclauchlan2610 the later shouldn't be a choice you muppet it should be a liberty. Being able to fish in your own river the same as you can go for a fucking run on your own path...

[@williammclauchlan2610]

There's only one Muppet talking here

[@paulpajot]

Just go to Tesco if you want your cheap salmon to eat. Salmon is at risk, everyone has to compromise their leisure and freedom for it to survive. It's only unfortunate it therefore becomes a privileged sport but I am ready to be okay with it as long as the salmons can carry on to spawning ground, which isn't always the case where it's allowed to legally keep the fish. It's a global issue, it shouldn't be treated beat by beat, on each of us terms.

[@andrewshepherd1579]

@@paulpajot Compromise by accepting to pay rip off prices set by people also profiting from it? It's people like you that is everything wrong with the modern day world. Just yes men accepting it rather than standing up against it. It's your planet remember, your river, your land.

[@davids9549]

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?

[@Speysider1962]

100% CORRECT

[@mattwright2964]

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.

[@thomas1144]

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

[@jimmykelly1000]

I do think highly that the bailiffs are doing a good job , but fish farming is more damaging to wild salmon than poaching does, seals take more salmon than poachers do , other species also predate on the salmon but are protected by law , its time for the Scottish government to give the go ahead to cull the numbers of animals that are predators on salmon untill the returning salmon numbers have recovered to a sustainable level , fish farming can also live side by side with wild salmon , but the fish farms have to be onshore ,filter the water and dispose of the waste in land fill , it will be more expensive to produce but will protect the wild salmon and other species of fish from ill health from the salmon cages , Argentina has banned fish farming ,Chile has banned fish farming, Norway has only allowed fish farming onshore in tanks, Canada has banned fish farming , why is Scotland and the SNP doing nothing to help wild salmon stocks, it beggars belief, absolutely shocking , Sturgeon too busy trying to get into the history books with the neverendum, she is a disgrace to SCOTLAND

[@joedennehy386]

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

[@robbiebanks9182]

High seas fishing salmon smolt by catch of the mackeral netters .and the sea lice problem with fish farms

[@oriel229]

Best reply of the lot.

[@oldcaretaker]

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

[@Dressagevids]

Pissing in the wind......I have watched catches fall consistently over my lifetime so whatever we are doing is futile, we are fiddling as Rome burns and have been for the last 40 years

[@williammclauchlan2610]

I agree to a point,but at least there are organisations passionate enough to at least be Pro active in doing something about it,it's easy to sit back and moan and groan about it as most of us do,me included.

[@Dressagevids]

The Bush had a return of 20% of migrating smolt numbers, that is now down to 5% so the real damage is being done at sea so we can fiddle with poachers till the cows come come, the poachers 2 fish on the video!!!! A Spanish trawler was boarded in the Irish BoX with 47 tonnes of salmon on board....

[@kevinwright3735]

Protect your salmon fishing, the next generation will benefit from this and many years to come, to fish for a salmon is brilliant when you have hooked into one, netting is a absolute joke, there should be stronger laws on this and receive a maximum fine and imprisonment for this act, buy a licence do it properly and look after our rivers👍👍

[@chrishewitt4747]

Yet they allow fish farms.. suppose it helps that Gov gets its 🤑

[@shaunpreston3212]

The problems you have are many bailiffs in general are not ex poachers! If you employed ex poachers you would get on top off this problem! I no! I used to be a as you say 1 or 2 for the pot and all hens went back!👍🏴‍☠️

[@fisherrich100]

The corrupt, inept Scottish government is the problem.

[@gmckayak]

Aye troll on

[@mauricebrown9094]

Thank you for your protection. Are there any small Salmon Hatcheries on this river system who's main goal is to keep the population of returning Salmon on a steady increase.????

[@joebrowne9217]

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

[@johnmckenzie-tj8ys]

thats what its all about the money they can charge for fishing big business and the elite kid us along that they care for salmon bull shit

[@davids9549]

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!

[@shaunpreston2839]

Nobody that's any good at mouching uses trebles like that!

[@andymac2369]

I never used trebles and caught hundreds of fish as a kid.

[@JAaurora2419]

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

[@RoebuckGoose]

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

[@steveharrison4176]

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.

[@polki1482]

😂😂 the snare and the gaff,thats not a gaff how the fuck would anyone catch a fish with those😅

[@spazzymacgee5648]

It was a homemade gaff.

[@polki1482]

@@spazzymacgee5648 every gaff is homemade but how on earth would you stick a fish with that thing

[@whitetroutchannel]

​@@polki1482easily lol

[@polki1482]

@@whitetroutchannel did you ever usw one of these

[@mattlenton2012]

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

[@wontbelongnow5567]

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.

[@cliveclerkenville2637]

Fish eating birds, seals etc

[@skunkhead2007]

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.

[@hermesjackle5903]

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.