Letter to the Editor: Pesticide a threat to salmon and to the Feale river

The late English poet laureate Ted Hughes described salmon as “sensitive glands in the vast, dishevelled body of nature, as individual meteorological stations responding to rain, storm, and wind”. He also believed salmon-fishing heightened one’s awareness and consciousness.

Those of us who have spent a lifetime fishing salmon and sea trout on the Feale river can agree with those sentiments. The demise of wild Atlantic salmon is well-documented and the contributing factors are many and varied.