Sos: save our wild salmon

All the latest news from our local experts. The only monthly record of catches and news from the major fisheries of England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland

In the first of a new series celebrating our best-loved piscine species, COUNTRY LIFE’s fishing correspondent salutes the elegant and reputedly magical Salmo trutta

Our waterways are sick – can thinking about them as living beings breathe new life into the campaign to save them?

Today’s staunch game-fisher has good reason to thank yesterday’s stolid coarse angler, writes Mike Handyside

Simon Smith reflects on the recent news that mackerel stocks are in deep trouble, as yet another species is brought to the brink of collapse by greed and incompetent management by politicians

At the first Tweed Salmon Festival, our correspondent finds there is much to be optimistic about in the fishing world, even if Salmo salar continues to decline