Let’s nurture the salmon – not destroy it

I REFER to the two astonishing and disturbing letters (May 29) written by Aidan Barry of the South Western Fisheries Board and John O’Donoghue TD concerning the proposed reintroduction of commercial fishing in Castlemaine Harbour, Co Kerry.

Every intelligent conservationist and “dog on the street” knows that salmon stocks throughout the entire North Atlantic are at all-time low levels.

The North Atlantic Salmon Conservation Council is carrying out extensive sea research under the chairmanship of Dr Ken Whelan of our own Marine Institute to establish why.