Salmon Rivers and Lochs of Scotland

[Fishtales]

An insight into the salmon rivers and lochs just after the first world war. I have only read part of the Introduction but it sounds interesting

http://www.archive.org/details/salmo...loch00caldiala

The .pdf link is here.

http://www.archive.org/download/salm...00caldiala.pdf

[Malcolm]

I think that the data in there is older than that Sandy. I have a first edition of the book and it was written in 1909 and  I get the impression that a lot of the research was done considerably earlier. I find it interesting when someone writes about no salmon in the Clyde since the sixties and you realise he's talking about the 1860s.

At the front of the copy I've got is some correspondence from Calderwood with the owner of the book and I notice that Calderwood  was obviously a member of the fisheries board from the headings on the letters.

The pen picture he paints of the sewage sludge on the Clyde is quite something and the "Turkey Red" and Alizarrin dyes and raw bleach in the Leven leave me astonished that salmon could ever get into the Lomond. Indeed he mentions the salmon flesh being tainted by chemicals.   

[Fishtales]

He states that in the Preface, Malcolm. The original data was for the 1909 book but he had tried to update it to show the state of the fishing as it was following the war. He goes on to say that where he couldn't get up to date information he used the old stuff.