The Wild Salmon Strategy Implementation Plan places great store on science providing the answers to the decline and how to fix it. It well might but scientists might be better talking to people who have worked on the rivers all their life and to people who have practical experience of things that do work. An example of how scientists can get it wrong is the recent Storm Babet - this is an extract from the Times newspaper:
"The floods that devastated Brechin were not predicted to hit for another 60 years, according to climate change modelling by Scotland’s environmental watchdog.
A 2021 flood risk plan from the Scottish Environmental Protection Agency (Sepa) estimated about “440 homes and businesses” in the Angus town would be liable to flooding “by the 2080s due to climate change”.
But last week after heavy rain from Storm Babet, the River South Esk burst its banks, forcing the evacuation of 400 homes."
So.........let's not place the future of Scotland's Salmon entirely in the hands of scientists!!