Save our Salmon
In May Trout & Salmon launched Save Our Salmon – a campaign that seeks to highlight the plight of the wild Atlantic salmon and raise funds to return the species to abundance. Last month they invited interested parties to pitch ideas that they believe would help reach that goal. They have received many proposals for funds, the best eight of which are published on their website. WSA believes all the pitches are deserving. However of particular interest to us is Pitch 1, submitted by the organisation ‘Campaign for the Protection of Welsh Fisheries [CPWF]’. They seek funding ‘to appoint an independent scientist to assess evidence used by Natural Resources Wales to justify its decision to close hatcheries’.
If they are successful in their bid for funding the outcome should be a clear and measured statement that the quoted documents do not provide such proof. Allowing CPWF and WSA to move forward in our attempts to overturn the NRW decision.
We ask you to go to the campaign site at; http://www.saveoursalmon.org/ and vote for Pitch 1 by completing the form on the ‘vote now’ page.
