SAVING SCOTLAND'S SALMON: ECOLOGICAL, SOCIAL AND POLITICAL FACTORS INFLUENCING ITS SURVIVAL. By Derek Mills.

2009 1st edition. 8vo (144 x 222mm). Pp231. B/w photographs, bibliography, silk marker ribbon. Black boards, spine titled in silver-gilt.

The preservation of salmon "has been the subject of some form of legislation in Scotland for over 800 years. Since the 1950's Scotland's salmon stocks have come increasingly under threat - from hydro-electric power, poaching, salmon farming, illegal drift-netting, UDN, and open sea drift-net fishing. This book looks at the importance of salmon to Scotland and examines in detail the past and continuing threats to its survival and the way in which these have been, and are still being tackled, by legislation, fisheries trusts and international organisations."