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...Saving Salmon...
Your article "Decline of the Atlantic Salmon" [Aug. 30] is an accurate portrayal of the problems besetting this magnificent fish in Scotland and other countries rimming the North Atlantic. The most destructive factor in forcing the salmon to retreat from their historic river haunts is the thousands of commercial nets, which drift at sea or are anchored near the entrance of rivers to ensnare salmon as they return to spawn. Only immediate government action can prevent the salmon's ultimate destruction...
...Atlantic Salmon Federation...
...they survive their far-flung travels, that is. Because the migratory patterns of Atlantic salmon are well known, commercial fishermen can easily catch the fish either at their feeding grounds or as they are about to return to their rivers. With increasing clamor, Scots are blaming the shortage of salmon in Scottish rivers on the perfectly legal, internationally negotiated agreements that allow fishermen from numerous European nations to net salmon in the open North Atlantic...
...private railway car, and from the start in Vancouver the Prime Minister was met at virtually every stop along the way by picketers, protesters and assorted Trudeauphobes, who screamed obscenities and lustily pelted his railway car with eggs and tomatoes. Particularly annoyed by out-of-work demonstrators at Salmon Arm, B.C., Trudeau responded before TV cameras with a monodigital gesture that prompted one observer to note: "Let it never be said that the Prime Minister refused to lift a finger on behalf of the unemployed...