Atlantic Salmon: Planning for the Future The Proceedings of the Third International Atlantic Salmon Symposium - held in Biarritz, France, 21-23 October, 1986

At present fishing for salmon in Norwegian home water is carried out with drift nets, bag nets, bend nets, lift nets and stake nets in the sea, and mainly by rods in the rivers. Catch statistics have been collected since 1876, but reliability of the statistics is questionable. The rates of exploitation on many Norwegian salmon sks are very high, and data are presented and discussed for River Laerdal, River Eira and River Imsa sks. As a result of this heavy exploitation with nets, the freque...