Foresters Rights (General)

by jhopkins , Thursday, December 09, 2010, 18:36 (5105 days ago) @ mrsbruso

We have recently seen a series on rivers by Griff Rhys Jones. In the episode on the Severn and the Wye, he interviewed some men who were salmon fishing using a traditional method that looked like a conical cane basket - I cannot recall the name for the traps. My memory is hazy, but I think he said that there were hereditary rights to fish in this manner, but they are hardly getting any salmon these days because of overfishing out at sea. And of course there were the fish weirs on the Wye - were there hereditary rights associated with those?