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Scrap Book
The
following items come from a variety of sources, and we've put them in
because we think they might be of interest to fishing visitors to Hope.
You can use the Forward and Back buttons in the upper right corner to
scroll through the pages.
Politicians
and Field Sports
Sir Max Hastings got the boot in, as the saying goes, in a rousing speech
to a fundraising dinner for the SCSA in October 2005. Here's what he
said.
Sir Max Back the SCA
The
Hope System.
ANDREW GRAHAM-STEWART'S new book, "The Salmon Rivers of the
North Highlands and Outer Hebrides", was published in early
2005, and sold out within a few months. Mysteriously, his publishers
have (so far at least) declined to reprint, so it is already a collectors'
item. Buy it at once if you see a copy: meanwhile, he has kindly allowed
us to include a preview of his chapter about the
Hope System today.
Two
19th Century descriptions.
AUGUSTUS GRIMBLE and ANDREW YOUNG were early advocates of the delights
of north-east Sutherland for the adventurous fisherman. Here are two
extracts in which they describe the
Hope System as it was then.
What
going on out at sea?
The EU's failure to control its fishing industry, and the consequent
chaotic destruction of the marine environment, is just one of the themes
in Charles Clover's book "THE END OF THE LINE", published
in a paperback edition in 2005. In case you haven't read it, here (to
encourage you) are some of the comments made by reviewers - plus a link
to Amazon so that you can buy it..
The End of the Line
Fish farms cannot be allowed in a country that considers itself civilised.
ADAM NICHOLSON attacks our tolerance of cruelty and environmental vandalism
in Scotland's tidal estuaries. ( Daily Telegraph - 17th January 2004
) Nasty
Business
Risky Business.
SANDY LEVENTON, editor of Trout and Salmon, comments on an article by
ROGER HIGHFIELD about the alleged toxicity of farmed salmon. (
Daily Telegraph - 9th &10th January 2004
) Risky
Business
Land
of Hope and Glory.
JOHN HUMPHREYS tries his hand at dapping for Highland sea-trout. ( Trout and Salmon - November 2001)
Hope
& Glory
The Damage We're Doing to Wild Fish.
AUSLAN CRAMB says fish farms "may spell the end of wild salmon";
and CHARLES CLOVER reveals that they "do harm sea-trout".
(Daily
Telegraph - 4th June 2003 & 4th September 2002) The
Damage we're Doing
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