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The award was founded in 1972 by the noted fishing tackle manufacturer and retailer Mallochs of Perth and first presented to Lady Burnett for a 43lb salmon caught on the Tay. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] Over the years winning fish have come from a number of Scottish rivers, including the Dee , Spey , Tweed , Tay and Naver . [ 1 ]
Fishing is available on many sections of the river. [2] The Earn forms part of the area of the Tay District Salmon Fisheries Board, [3] the statutory body that controls and manages stocks of salmon and trout along all rivers within the Tay catchment area. [4] Fishing permits are issued by the individual estates for each section of the river. [5]
Catch reporting is a part of Monitoring control and surveillance of Commercial fishing. Depending on national and local fisheries management practices, catch reports may reveal illegal fishing practices, or simply indicate that a given area is being overfished.
The Commission also mandates the compilation of catch reports and other statistical and biological records, [4] and is actively involved in whale research, including funding and promoting studies, publishing the results of scientific research, and encouraging studies into related matters, such as the humaneness of the killing operations. [5]
The Tay bridge is the subject of William McGonagall's poems "Railway Bridge of the Silvery Tay" and "The Tay Bridge Disaster", and in the German poet Theodor Fontane's poem "Die Brück' am Tay ". Both deal with the Tay bridge disaster of 1879, seeing the bridge's construction as a case of human hubris and expressing an uneasiness towards the ...
This is an impartial (not implicitly biased to a single governing body, the BRFC) and comprehensive record list of 312 British record freshwater fish, past and present, involving 60 species/sub-species of fish caught using the traditional angling method of rod and line.
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On 7 October 1922, Ballantine was fishing with her father, on the Glendelvine Water, a salmon fishing pool on the River Tay.Following a two-hour struggle, she landed a 64lb (29kg) salmon, the largest recorded taken from a British river with rod and line, [1] [2] and half Ballantine's own weight. [3]