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Fishing and the Law

Started by Inchlaggan, February 28, 2013, 03:38:11 PM

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Inchlaggan

I have finally managed to obtain a second-hand copy of "The Law of Game, Salmon, and Freshwater Fishing in Scotland" by Stanley Scott Robinson, published in 1990.
Amongst much else it details the limits of estuary for the major rivers, and defines "trout".
Ask away, if the answer is in the book I'll let you know.
'til a voice as bad as conscience,
rang interminable changes,
on an everlasting whisper,
day and night repeated so-
"Something hidden, go and find it,
Go and look beyond the ranges,
Something lost beyond the ranges,
Lost and waiting for you,
Go."

Wildfisher

Let's start with that - what are  the limits of estuary for the major rivers?

Inchlaggan

Quote from: guest on February 28, 2013, 03:41:43 PM
Published 1990?

We have had a whole new bill since then have we not?

Yep, and this is the book that made the argument for the provisions of the new bill.

Don Estuary

"A portion of a circle of 400 yards radius to be drawn from a centre placed mid-channel in the river where it joins the sea at low water of equinoctial spring tides, and continued shorewards by tangents to the circle drawn to the nearest points of the shore of the respective sides of the river at high water mark, also of the equinoctial spring tides."
'til a voice as bad as conscience,
rang interminable changes,
on an everlasting whisper,
day and night repeated so-
"Something hidden, go and find it,
Go and look beyond the ranges,
Something lost beyond the ranges,
Lost and waiting for you,
Go."

Wildfisher

Quote from: Inchlaggan on February 28, 2013, 03:52:32 PM
"A portion of a circle of 400 yards radius to be drawn from a centre placed mid-channel in the river where it joins the sea at low water of equinoctial spring tides, and continued shorewards by tangents to the circle drawn to the nearest points of the shore of the respective sides of the river at high water mark, also of the equinoctial spring tides."

What happens if I arrive and find I have forgotten to put my protractor  in my fishing bag? Would this be a mitigating circumstance?  :lol:

Inchlaggan

'til a voice as bad as conscience,
rang interminable changes,
on an everlasting whisper,
day and night repeated so-
"Something hidden, go and find it,
Go and look beyond the ranges,
Something lost beyond the ranges,
Lost and waiting for you,
Go."

Wildfisher

Quote from: guest on February 28, 2013, 05:00:00 PM
Would you have room in your vest for a 400m tape measure? :?

I already carry one. I've  told you before  that I measure my fish. :lol:

Inchlaggan

'til a voice as bad as conscience,
rang interminable changes,
on an everlasting whisper,
day and night repeated so-
"Something hidden, go and find it,
Go and look beyond the ranges,
Something lost beyond the ranges,
Lost and waiting for you,
Go."

Wildfisher

Getting back on tropic - it sounds like a useful book to have, the laws were not changed drastically as I remember it.

Inchlaggan

It is indeed, I've only been through the freshwater fishing section but it confirms a number of things I've been told before, debunks a few myths, and holds a few surprises.
Were the provisions of civil law to become enacted in criminal law a lot of us would be deep in the brown stuff.
'til a voice as bad as conscience,
rang interminable changes,
on an everlasting whisper,
day and night repeated so-
"Something hidden, go and find it,
Go and look beyond the ranges,
Something lost beyond the ranges,
Lost and waiting for you,
Go."

Wildfisher

I don't doubt it. One can already see the problems the blatant abuse of POs has caused on some waters such as certain beats on the Don where it appears to have  been used to exclude ordinary anglers in order to sell fishing to syndicates. We must be constantly on our guard against reactionary  "improvements"  in the law becoming the norm justified by the antics of a ned-like minority. If we don't we will only have ourselves to blame.

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