Coul Fishings shows its commitment to conservation through continued support of MSA
We would like to express our sincere thanks to the Coul Fishings team who have raised a grand total of £1,960 for the Missing Salmon Alliance. Raising funds for the third year running, Coul Fishings has now donated a total of £5,680 to the MSA.
Head Ghillie John Macaskill on left with net and Ghillie Ian Sutherland on right with rod.
In an initiative to simultaneously offer access to prime salmon fishing during a prime time of the season to local and junior anglers and support the MSA, Coul Fishings offered a raffle ticket style ballot. The beat is a four-rod beat and by splitting the week in half, Coul created the opportunity for eight individual winners. Each winner received three days’ fishing for each individual winning ticket and the week on offer was week 27, beginning on July 3rd.
We are advocating for the protection of freshwater habitats, the improvement of water quantity and quality, and the reduction of losses of salmon in our rivers, coastal waters, and the open ocean. The funds raised will go towards MSA led scientific research, lobbying for change, and direct steps on the ground towards supporting the health of wild Atlantic salmon.
John Macaskill, Head Ghillie at Coul Fishings, River Conon, said, “We were extremely grateful once again this year to have the kind permission of Coul Fishings beat proprietor Mr David Flux to run our charity raffle week to raise funds for the Missing Salmon Alliance. I was delighted to sell 98 tickets this year raising £1960 while also creating opportunities for local anglers to fish our beat at a prime time of season. This is our third year running such an event and in total we have now raised £5680 for the Missing Salmon Alliance. We were very fortunate that the following organisations helped us by offering our raffle tickets available for sale, and we would like to express our thanks to all of them: The Sports and Model Shop in Dingwall, Grahams of Inverness, Dingwall angling Club, Inverness angling club and the Beauly angling club.
To continue being proactive we have to fully support organisations like the Missing Salmon Alliance. This helps enable them to carry out their hugely important work and projects to help achieve the outcome that collectively we all want, that precious Atlantic Salmon to be swimming our rivers for generations to come. Without the evidence gathering and scientific action taking place within these organisations, our wild Atlantic salmon will not have a future.”
Thank you, Coul Fishings, for your invaluable support.
As an Alliance of six organisations, we will build on the existing work of our partners and maximise our impact by taking a coordinated approach and vital action in order to halt and reverse the decline of wild Atlantic salmon.
The goal of the Missing Salmon Alliance is to build an evidence-base to influence national and international decision-makers to regulate activities that adversely impact wild Atlantic salmon.
The Missing Salmon Alliance
The MSA is comprised of the following members:
Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust, Atlantic Salmon Trust, the Angling Trust with Fish Legal, The Rivers Trust and Fisheries Management Scotland.
https://www.missingsalmonalliance.org