TWEED TOWARDS 2000: A SYMPOSIUM ON THE FUTURE MANAGEMENT OF THE TWEED FISHERIES.

1989 1st edition. Large 4to paperback (210 x 297mm). Pp128. Colour and b/w photographs, illustrations, maps and graphs.

Contents include: Opening address by His Grace, The Duke of Roxburgh; Introduction by W.A.C. Thomson; The conservation of the river by C.O. Badenoch; Tweed water quality by J.C. Currie; The hydrology of the Tweed by I.A. Fox; Tweed invertebrate life by J.W. Clayton; The fish populations of the Tweed - their distribution and interation in a changing environment by D.H. Mills; The trout fishery by A.D. Jamieson; The River Tweed salmon and sea trout fisheries by W.M. Shearer; Illegal fishing by A. Veitch; The English north-esat drift net fishery by A.S. Champion; The work of the Atlantic Salmon Conservation Trust by The Hon. Lord Hunter;The North Atlantic Salmon Conservation Organisation by M.L Windsor and P. Hutchinson; The economics of the Tweed and its fisheries by J.H. Leeming; Tweed juvenile salmon and trout stocks by R. Gardiner; Tweed caulds and fish passes by C.G. Carnie; Genetics and salmon restocking by E. Verspoor; A future fisheries management plan for Tweed by N. Yonge; Concluding comments by G.M. Dunnet.