Petition Discussions

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Petition ID Commenter Date Comment
2231 Laurent Bonetat 2015-01-04T16:12:25.66 I think that I wouldn't come back to Scotland for salmon fishing if nothing is really done to save wild scottish salm...
2231 Michael Martin 2015-01-04T16:22:29.383 The fish farms have decimated the Salmon stocks and the resumption of netting will further add to the salmons decline...
2231 Alan Smith 2015-01-04T16:51:07.397 I cannot imagine the reasons for this lack of\r\njoined up thinking by Government.\r\nThe Welsh Parliament have made ...
2231 PJ Lewis 2015-01-04T17:25:04.213 A limited period catch-and-release is a sensible precaution and ending netting for good is sound economic sense given...
2231 Derek Wofinden 2015-01-04T18:22:59.047 Having seen salmon catch rates decline on Scotland's rivers, if Scotland's Parliament need to take drastic action soo...
2231 Francis Mildmay-White 2015-01-04T19:42:28.557 The wild salmon stock situation in Scotland is extremely concerning. The government needs to take action immediately...
2231 Robert Garnett 2015-01-04T20:16:11.353 All mixed stock netting stations and estuary netting stations should be closed until salmon make a sustainable recove...
2231 William de Burgh 2015-01-04T20:58:40.46 It just makes common sense. Without the ability to come back to the river to spawn there will be no future salmon. Th...
2231 Packie Mc Dermott 2015-01-05T04:58:32.87 Scotland without Salmon,is 100 times worse than Scotland without it's Whiskey
2231 PEYROT Francis 2015-01-05T06:18:02.33 Thanks, Ian, for your implacation.
2231 Steen Mortensen 2015-01-05T07:27:45.487 Keep up the good work in fighting agains netting for wild salmon and seatrouts. Live and wild salmon in the rivers is...
2231 david pease 2015-01-05T07:48:28.253 salmon fishing provides such a source of income to Strath Glass. It would be a severe blow to so many people our catc...
2231 Jim Bumby 2015-01-05T07:52:34.23 Netting is devastating our wild fish stocks. In 2013 the North east MSF nets killed more than 16000 salmon and 40000 ...
2231 GRAHAM SALISBURY 2015-01-05T09:21:14.737 Scotish Government has to regognise the true value of salmon angling to the Scotish economy 160 million PA and the hu...
2231 Richard Brown 2015-01-05T09:23:08.36 Although I live in North Wales I fish in Scotland hence my signature on a Scottish issue.
2231 Marcus Lidster 2015-01-05T09:42:22.767 The stopping of all coastal netting will help the long term viability of the salmon rod fishing tourist industry. I ...
2231 Nick Winter 2015-01-05T09:59:42.707 Salmon numbers are very low and this measure would surely help. Anglers are eternally optimistic, but if there reall...
2231 chris Sutcliffe 2015-01-05T10:19:35.8 I seem to catch less and less fish (salmon and sea trout) year on year.\r\nMy visits to the rivers of Scotland as a r...
2231 Michael Charles Gordon-Lennox 2015-01-05T10:20:06.767 The petition as drafted must make sense
2231 Alan Jones 2015-01-05T10:27:13.86 It may already be too late to stop the netting, but it is worth the effort to try and prevent all netting around our ...
2231 Alan Jones 2015-01-05T10:29:49.993 In addition to the action on netting and rod catches, it is time that the EU and the Scottish government acted to red...
2231 Hans van Manen 2015-01-05T10:46:09.517 Absolutely right to organise this petition, salmon stocks are worldwide endangered. I come from the Netherlands, salm...
2231 Alfred George Pope 2015-01-05T11:22:24.423 As a riparian owner I am extremely concerned about Salmon Stocks. I believe in 100% Catch and Release and the moving...
2231 Alison Alston 2015-01-05T11:29:59.23 Our wild Scottish Salmon are a precious and valuable resource that must be put before politics.\r\nTo not do everythi...
2231 David Hanbury 2015-01-05T12:50:26.003 I have at least 3 fisherman friends who go to Scotland every year to fly-fish for salmon. They are beginning to thi...
2231 Christopher Edmondson 2015-01-05T14:10:00.903 It is nothing short of a tragedy what has been done to the salmon.
2231 Jeremy Sharp 2015-01-05T16:51:56.79 One successful spawning gives rise to thousands of new potential fish. Why deplete already low stocks by netting?
2231 Peter Brogan 2015-01-05T16:53:41.057 To avoid the future extinction of indigenous Wild Atlantic Salmon borne from Scottish Rivers, please put a stop to in...
2231 David Crawshaw 2015-01-05T17:10:02.213 Why when the Spring and early Summer run is almost non existent did you go for a 1st July date. The bulk of the run i...
2191 Iain McKinnon 2015-01-05T18:28:05.683 I believe that in those straitened times, it behoves all local authorities to ensure that all unpaid Poll and Council...
2231 Jean-Paul Javerzat 2015-01-05T18:33:51.493 In the Dordogne river (France) we lost our last wild salmon decades ago. Efforts to re-introduce salmon from other ri...
2231 Jee Yul Yoon 2015-01-05T18:54:34.853 I can't believe salmon industry trying to whitewash wild stock extinction. It acts like species and ecosystems unimp...
2231 Guy Hollis 2015-01-05T18:56:00.273 Used to visit Scotland regulalrly to fish - seldom go now as salmon stocks have been destroyed by total lack of under...
2191 Kirsty Clark 2015-01-05T18:58:30.197 I whole heartedly agree that under NO circumstances should the outstanding poll tax debt be written off - if it shoul...
2231 James Edwards 2015-01-05T19:06:47.933 I fish Scotland each year for Salmon, last year (2014) was perhaps the worst ever with hardly any spring fish showing...
2231 Niall Riddell 2015-01-05T19:29:33.37 How can we expect other countries not to net Scottish salmon, if we cannot put our own house in order
2231 Michael Lynch 2015-01-05T19:41:01.603 The most amazing fish on this country, it is education needed not nets. The Wild Salmon are not ours to take, we must...
2231 olivier allais 2015-01-05T20:22:57.597 With the end of wild salmon I look sadly at my trips in scotland and probably put an end to these ...
2231 Daniel Hoda, Switzerland 2015-01-05T20:46:46.437 In Switzerland, the Atlantic Salmon was elected as the fish of the year 2015. This is bad because only endengered spe...
2231 Matthias Uphues 2015-01-05T21:31:39.557 Wild salmons are too valueable just to eat. Take your time and go fishing for one yourself! Enjoy nature! Best regards.
2231 Dr Tom Gibson 2015-01-05T22:01:54.837 It is very sad that Spring Salmon have almost vanished within my lifetime
2231 John Noel Hulmston 2015-01-05T22:30:04.603 It is vital that commercial fishing interests are not permitted to destroy game fishing. In Wales tourist fishing is ...
2231 Stuart Robertson 2015-01-05T22:39:33.76 We need to preserve stocks for future generations, so that they can experience catching wild salmon in Scotland.
2231 Priscilla Judd 2015-01-06T03:42:50.447 If you want to save wild salmon, make the fish farms move their net pens on land or far far out to sea. Stop feeding ...
2231 Paul C Boyle 2015-01-06T05:04:25.057 The scottish national party has had no issue in passing continual trivial and unnecessary legislation to interfere in...
2231 Angus Johnston 2015-01-06T09:45:56.723 If anglers are asked to return fish then it is just common sense there should be no nets on rivers and a far harder c...
2231 Mike Wills 2015-01-06T10:17:05.707 There is no doubt salmon numbers are desperately low and the consequences of doing nothing are unthinkable both in te...
2231 Edward Byam-Cook 2015-01-06T11:16:08.367 The Scottish people are shooting themselves in the foot if they consider allowing netting of wild slamon to restart. ...
2231 John Tullett 2015-01-06T12:24:38.16 Netting is no longer a thing that is needed nor required, there is plenty of farmed salmon with all the so called fri...
2231 Albert Donven, President , Club Saumon Luxembourg 2015-01-06T14:07:31.32 How can the Scottish Executive be so foolish to kill\r\nthe "bird with the golden eggs" re. the salmon in Scotland ?