The Foyle Fishery: Economic Aspects of Management. ESRI Memorandum Series No. 106 1975

O'Connor, Robert (1974) The Foyle Fishery: Economic Aspects of Management. ESRI Memorandum Series No. 106 1975. [Policy Paper]

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Abstract

The Atlantic salmon has been described by Netboy as "one of the noblest and most honoured (as well as the most harried) fishes known to man. Born in some humble river it tarries there for one to four years and having attained the size of a man's finger it vanishes into the ocean only to return to this same stream a few years later as a full grown adult. It provides sport for kings and its pink flesh is like no other." When man first inhabited Europe the salmon were plentiful in hundreds of coastal rivers. They were found in all Northern European countries including Western Russia. They occurred in Greenland and in all suitable waters on the North American side of the Atlantic ocean from Ungava Bay in the south to the most northern of the Canadian rivers.

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