Scottish Salmon Nets

Commercial salmon netting in Scotland is now a pale shadow of its former self, some netsmen forced out by dwindling stocks and more having been bought out to conserve maximum stocks for the angling fraternity. The tradition is known to go back more than 800 years, and was much more intensive in the past, so it is unreasonable to lay the blame for today's decline in salmon numbers solely at the netsmens' door.