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Fishing: Salmon and Sea Trout

Answer

The following fisheries are described under the heading, ““Stocks exploited by Mixed Stock Fisheries in England and Wales”” in the EC report, Review of Mixed Stock Fisheries for Atlantic Salmon in European Community Waters Excluding the Baltic Sea¹ , and will be operating in 2007: North-east drift net and T&J net fishery—exploit Aln, Coquet, Tyne, Wear, Tees, Yorkshire Esk and eastern Scottish river stocks. Anglian coastal (mainly drift) net fishery—exploits mostly sea trout; only 15 salmon declared for 2006. Stocks derive from rivers in the north-east of England (as listed for the NE fishery above) and the River Tweed in Scotland. The Severn estuary fishery (seine nets, lave nets and putchers)—exploits stocks from the Wye, Usk, Severn, Taff, Ely, Rhymney, Ebbw and Parrett. The table below indicates which of the river stocks mentioned above (a) are currently failing to meet their conservation limits; and (b) are expected to fail their conservation limits in 2011.

River	Currently failing CL (2006 data)?	Current compliance with management objective(1)?	Predicted compliance with management objective in 2011(2)?
Aln	CL and management objective not set for this river
Coquet	No	Pass	Pass
Tyne	No	Pass	Pass
Wear	No	Pass	Pass
Tees	Yes	Fail	Fail
Yorkshire Esk	No	Uncertain	Uncertain
Wye	Yes	Fail	Fail
Severn	No	Uncertain	Uncertain
Usk (Wales)	No	Uncertain	Uncertain
Taff &Ely (Wales)	Yes	Fail	Fail
Rhymney & Ebbw (Wales) & Parrett	CLs and management objectives not set for these rivers
Note:
(1) The management objective is to meet or exceed conservation limits four years out of five
(2) The Environment Agency's predictions of compliance are to 2011 not 2010
1 Potter and O’Maoileidigh, 2006

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

3296; 691 c180WA

Session

2006-07

Subjects

Conservation Fisheries Fish Rivers Salmon Trout

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