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		<title>Taking a break for 2012</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Dec 2011 17:48:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gordon Mack</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Between The Lines is taking an extended sabbatical to work on a special project.  This is expected to last throughout 2012.  It is hoped that this journal will resume publication in a new and updated format thereafter.  Meanwhile, existing postings will remain online for reference. Many thanks to all regular readers and contributors. Best regards [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bxttlines.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5730062&amp;post=1156&amp;subd=bxttlines&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Opinion: The grim paradoxes behind saving our salmon</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Dec 2011 17:39:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gordon Mack</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[IT MIGHT be the close season in Scotland for salmon fishing, but there was to be no festive season truce this year it seems in the on-going battle between anglers and commercial interests over conservation and exploitation of the iconic species. The news that Brechin Angling Club in Angus is taking legal action against the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bxttlines.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5730062&amp;post=1151&amp;subd=bxttlines&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Epic battle&#8217; nets Malloch Trophy for Nith angler</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Dec 2011 12:24:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gordon Mack</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[game fishing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Malloch Trophy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[River Nith]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Tay Foundation]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A 34.5lb SALMON from the River Nith in Dumfries and Galloway has won the 2011 Savills Malloch Trophy for its captor, angler Sam Valentine. The late autumn fish was caught on November 16 at Dalswinton after what Valentine, who had waited 27 years to  catch a salmon over 20lbs, described as “an epic battle of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bxttlines.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5730062&amp;post=1142&amp;subd=bxttlines&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Scottish Government to consult on banning salmon farms in some areas</title>
		<link>http://bxttlines.wordpress.com/2011/10/18/scottish-government-to-consult-on-banning-salmon-farms-in-some-areas/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Oct 2011 22:58:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gordon Mack</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[GOOD TO see BBC Scotland finally addressing getting stuck in to the controversy surrounding salmon farming this evening with a special investigation into the risks of sea lice to stocks of wild migratory Atlantic salmon and sea trout. Although the programme, Scotland&#8217;s Fishy Secrets was only aired north of the Border, it is available for [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bxttlines.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5730062&amp;post=1138&amp;subd=bxttlines&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Garry the dog, still makes news 90 years on</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Oct 2011 13:40:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gordon Mack</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[THE TALE of Garry, the cross retriever of Borders&#8217; minister Denholm Fraser, who give birth to one of the world’s best known salmon flies, continues to attract interest. Following my chance encounter with the Rev Fraser’s grandson and publication here of a photograph of Garry himself,  BBC broadcaster Mark Stephen got in touch for a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bxttlines.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5730062&amp;post=1121&amp;subd=bxttlines&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Record salmon rod catches, but lean times ahead scientists warn</title>
		<link>http://bxttlines.wordpress.com/2011/09/27/record-salmon-rod-catches-but-lean-times-ahead-scientists-warn/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Sep 2011 17:40:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gordon Mack</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Atlantic Salmon Trust]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[coastal netting]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[grilse]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[RAFTS]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Richard Lochhead]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[IT IS bewildering to have to digest the variety of conflicting reports on the status of Scotland’s Atlantic salmon population in recent weeks. There have been concerns over disappearing  grilse as the Daily Telegraph reported in June; growing disparity between west and east coast rod catches according to a Rivers and Fisheries Trusts of Scotland [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bxttlines.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5730062&amp;post=1109&amp;subd=bxttlines&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Chapter 13 &#8211; Lies, Damned Lies, and Catch Returns</title>
		<link>http://bxttlines.wordpress.com/2011/09/22/chapter-13-lies-damned-lies-and-catch-returns/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Sep 2011 14:14:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gordon Mack</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Not Exactly Fishing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[angling diary]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[catch returns]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ghillies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[South Uist]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[statistics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[wild brown trout]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[IN THE latest instalment of Not Exactly Fishing, Gordon Mack ponders the values of catch returns and makes his own analysis of a week&#8217;s fishing this summer in South Uist. I MUCH admire angling friends who studiously keep a fishing diary. It is unquestionably a valuable resource, especially if you are a regular on certain [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bxttlines.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5730062&amp;post=1096&amp;subd=bxttlines&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Wild salmon campaigners launch new websites</title>
		<link>http://bxttlines.wordpress.com/2011/09/21/wild-salmon-campaigners-launch-new-websites/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Sep 2011 12:15:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gordon Mack</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[THREE new websites launched recently by the  salmon and sea trout angling lobby are worth bookmarking. While the general objectives of the sites are not identical, there is a common topic which is clear – the ongoing campaign to raise awareness of the risks of untrammeled expansion of inshore salmon farming to wild migratory fish. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bxttlines.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5730062&amp;post=1089&amp;subd=bxttlines&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Chapter 12 – Paradise Lost</title>
		<link>http://bxttlines.wordpress.com/2011/06/08/chapter-12-%e2%80%93-paradise-lost/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Jun 2011 17:07:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gordon Mack</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Cuillin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kate McLaren]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Silver Invicta]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the latest instalment of Not Exactly Fishing, Gordon Mack recalls how his beloved hill loch retreat, tucked away off the beaten track in the foothills of The Cuillin was unexpectedly burgled. IT IS A Scottish Highland hill loch to gladden the heart of any wild trout enthusiast.  Small, no more than 15 or so [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bxttlines.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5730062&amp;post=1080&amp;subd=bxttlines&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Lochhead &#8216;breathtakingly wrong&#8217; say Arran conservationists</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Jun 2011 11:14:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gordon Mack</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[IT is comforting to note that I am not alone in identifying the SNP Government in Scotland of being long on rhetoric but coming up short on action when it concerns many aspects of marine conservation.  And Richard Lochhead, the fisheries minister stands accused again of being out of touch with reality in the latest [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bxttlines.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5730062&amp;post=1075&amp;subd=bxttlines&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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