Under the emergency byelaw, which took effect on June 15, draft net and
putcher fishing in the Severn estuary will be prohibited.
For over 40 years Mr Mott, who lives in Stroat, has fished the Severn near Lydney Harbour using a putcher rank, trapping adult salmon in conical baskets as they make their way back from the sea to the river of their birth to spawn.
Mr Mott says the ancient putcher method is environmentally sensitive and keeps salmon stocks stable.
For more than 40 years Mr Mott, who lives in Stroat, has fished the Severn near Lydney Harbour using a putcher rank, trapping adult salmon in conical baskets as they make their way back from the sea to the river of their birth to spawn.
Mr Mott says the ancient putcher method is environmentally sensitive and ensures salmon stocks remain stable.
Rabsavich about tunnel building in 1995, and between 1957 to 1977 by Rabsavich and his colleagues such as Salzburg and
Putcher is completed and developed.
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Putcher, 10 Hilltop Dr., Stockton, NJ 08559; 609-773-0060; gaymornd@comcast.net.
For the first time in years, salmon returning to spawn in the rivers will not be running the gauntlet of '
putcher' traps and drift nets which decimate their numbers.
The Lave, coracle, compass, seine and
putcher nets are unique to Wales.
There was no mention of the coracle, seine, compass,
putcher or lave nets by name, but commented further that 'the commercial diaodrous fisheries were drawing to a close on the basis that they were no longer biological or commercially viable under ruling conditions'.
SIR - By maintaining and extending the anti-net sentiments of the angling lobby, Carwyn Jones has sealed the fate of the traditional Welsh net fisheries on the coracles on the Towy and Teifi and Taf, the compass nets of the west and eastern Cleddau, the lave and
putcher nets of the Severn and the seine nets.