Salmon fishing: proposed river gradings for 2023 season
Seeking your views on the proposed river gradings for the 2023 salmon fishing season.
Overview and proposed river gradings
We are seeking your views on the proposed river gradings for the 2023 salmon fishing season.
We are also seeking your views on achieving higher catch and release and associated post-catch survival rates.
You can submit your views until 9 September 2022.
Proposed river gradings for the 2023 season
An assessment of the conservation status of salmon in inland waters in Scotland is carried out each year and each river or assessment group is assigned a grading depending on the outcome of that assessment. The annual assessment is explained in our video.
As a result of the latest assessment, we are proposing that the grading of a number of rivers or groups of rivers will change for the 2023 fishing season.
A summary of these changes is available.
Summary
|
Category |
2018 |
2019 |
2020 |
2021 |
2022 |
2023 (Proposed) |
|
1 |
28 |
48 |
36 |
36 |
37 |
29 |
|
2 |
21 |
30 |
34 |
35 |
35 |
31 |
|
3 |
122 |
95 |
103 |
102 |
101 |
113 |
Increase – This indicates a rise of one level in grade. This applies to one river in 2023.
Decrease – This indicates a fall of one level in grade. This applies to twenty rivers in 2023.
Proposed gradings
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