SEE BELOW THE PICTURE OF YESTERDAYS EARLY MORNING CORMORANT CATCH.
No doubt repeated up and down the river, plus the Goosanders, trout, pike and other coarse fish.
On top of this if you included normal mortality rates ask yourself is the current stock of salmon enough to produce the amount of smolt's needed. THE ONLY SENSIBLE ANSWER IS NO.

Still nothing on the salmon front and even the coarse fishermen are struggling now it seems. Everyone needs some serious rain in the river soon- obviously.!