{"id":1198,"date":"2019-06-19T11:32:42","date_gmt":"2019-06-19T16:32:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.www.outdoorsfirst.com\/salmon\/?p=1198"},"modified":"2019-06-19T11:32:42","modified_gmt":"2019-06-19T16:32:42","slug":"emergency-measures-introduced-to-protect-uk-salmon-stocks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.outdoorsfirst.com\/salmon\/emergency-measures-introduced-to-protect-uk-salmon-stocks\/","title":{"rendered":"Emergency measures introduced to protect UK salmon stocks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An emergency bylaw to protect salmon in the River Severn and its estuary has been introduced by the United Kingdom&#8217;s Environment Agency after a review of recent data showed a significant reduction in the stock.<\/p>\n<p>Under the new measure that took effect on 15 June, 2019, draft-net and putcher fishing in the Severn estuary is prohibited, while lave-net fishing is to operate on a catch-and-release basis only. The bylaw also makes catch and release for rod-and-line fishing compulsory on the whole of the Severn for the remainder of the current rod season, which lasts until 7 October.<\/p>\n<p>The move to protect this salmon population comes after figures on the stock levels for the Severn, Wye, and Usk showed numbers were extremely low<\/p>\n<p>Read More: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.seafoodsource.com\/news\/environment-sustainability\/emergency-measures-introduced-to-protect-uk-salmon-stocks\">Emergency measures introduced to protect UK salmon stocks<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An emergency bylaw to protect salmon in the River Severn and its estuary has been introduced by the United Kingdom&#8217;s Environment Agency after a review of recent data showed a significant reduction in the stock. Under the new measure that took effect on 15 June, 2019, draft-net and putcher fishing in the Severn estuary is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11658,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-news-release","post_format-post-format-link"],"acf":[],"youtube_video":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outdoorsfirst.com\/salmon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outdoorsfirst.com\/salmon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outdoorsfirst.com\/salmon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outdoorsfirst.com\/salmon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11658"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outdoorsfirst.com\/salmon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1198"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.outdoorsfirst.com\/salmon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1198\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1199,"href":"https:\/\/www.outdoorsfirst.com\/salmon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1198\/revisions\/1199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outdoorsfirst.com\/salmon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outdoorsfirst.com\/salmon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outdoorsfirst.com\/salmon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}