Missing Salmon Raises Suspicion
Valerie Elliott
Times Online
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Broadlands Estate, Hampshire (UK):
It is one of the most cherished fishing stretches in the world, but troubled waters have gathered on the River Test. Salmon have gone missing from the upper reaches of the chalk stream and a number of fisheries owners suspect that someone is interfering with the salmon run.
The bickering is the talk of the angling world because one of the stretches most affected by the lack of salmon is the Broadlands Estate, former home of Earl Mountbatten of Burma, now run by his grandson, Lord Brabourne.
He has won support from Sir Peter Cresswell, a High Court judge who has interests along the upper part of the Test. They are clearly mystified by the lack of salmon, without which their fisheries will lose value.
The higher the catch the more anglers are willing to pay for a day’s fishing. When there is plenty of salmon, anglers will pay between £200 and £300 a day, and a season ticket costs between £650 to £1,000. One independent investigation into the lack of salmon has already been completed by the Environment Agency and found the five-mile Testwood fishery, which runs to the sea, to be blameless. Experts carried out checks on the river and found no tampering with the salmon flow.
Nov 19, 2005
Valerie Elliott
Times Online
__________
Broadlands Estate, Hampshire (UK):
It is one of the most cherished fishing stretches in the world, but troubled waters have gathered on the River Test. Salmon have gone missing from the upper reaches of the chalk stream and a number of fisheries owners suspect that someone is interfering with the salmon run.
The bickering is the talk of the angling world because one of the stretches most affected by the lack of salmon is the Broadlands Estate, former home of Earl Mountbatten of Burma, now run by his grandson, Lord Brabourne.
He has won support from Sir Peter Cresswell, a High Court judge who has interests along the upper part of the Test. They are clearly mystified by the lack of salmon, without which their fisheries will lose value.
The higher the catch the more anglers are willing to pay for a day’s fishing. When there is plenty of salmon, anglers will pay between £200 and £300 a day, and a season ticket costs between £650 to £1,000. One independent investigation into the lack of salmon has already been completed by the Environment Agency and found the five-mile Testwood fishery, which runs to the sea, to be blameless. Experts carried out checks on the river and found no tampering with the salmon flow.
Nov 19, 2005
