River Conon Coul Fishings raffle nets almost £2000 for Missing Salmon Alliance (MSA)
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A grand total of £1960 has been raised by Coul Fishings on the River Conon for the Missing Salmon Alliance (MSA), a group of Britain’s leading conservation organisations focussed on salmon.
Raising funds for the third year running, Coul Fishings has now donated a total of £5680 to this cause.
In an initiative to simultaneously offer access to prime salmon fishing during a prime time of the season to local and junior anglers and support the MSA, Coul Fishings offered a raffle ticket style ballot.
The beat is a four-rod beat and by splitting the week in half, Coul created the opportunity for eight individual winners.
Each winner received three days’ fishing for each individual winning ticket and the week on offer was week 27, beginning on July 3.
The MSA are advocating for the protection of freshwater habitats, the improvement of water quantity and quality, and the reduction of losses of salmon in our rivers, coastal waters, and the open ocean. The funds raised will go towards MSA led scientific research, lobbying for change, and direct steps on the ground towards supporting the health of wild Atlantic salmon.
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"Without the evidence gathering and scientific action taking place within these organisations, our wild Atlantic salmon will not have a future.” – John Macaskill
John Macaskill, head ghillie at Coul Fishings, River Conon, said: “We were extremely grateful once
again this year to have the kind permission of Coul Fishings beat proprietor Mr David Flux to run our
charity raffle week to raise funds for the Missing Salmon Alliance. I was delighted to sell 98 tickets
this year raising £1960 while also creating opportunities for local anglers to fish our beat at a prime
time of season.
"This is our third year running such an event and in total we have now raised £5680 for the Missing Salmon Alliance. We were very fortunate that the following organisations helped us by offering our raffle tickets available for sale, and we would like to express our thanks to all of them: The Sports and Model Shop in Dingwall, Grahams of Inverness, Dingwall angling Club, Inverness Angling Club and the Beauly Angling Club.
"To continue being proactive we have to fully support organisations like the Missing Salmon Alliance. This helps enable them to carry out their hugely important work and projects to help achieve the outcome that collectively we all want, that precious Atlantic Salmon to be swimming our rivers for generations to come. Without the evidence gathering and scientific action taking place within these organisations, our wild Atlantic salmon will not have a future.”
What is the Missing Salmon Alliance?
Founded in 2019, a group of Britain’s leading conservation-focused organisations formed the Missing Salmon Alliance. Their combined expertise has continued to drive action to save our wild Atlantic salmon from the brink of extinction. The member organisations are the Atlantic Salmon Trust, the Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust, the Angling Trust with Fish Legal, Fisheries Management Scotland, and the Rivers Trust.
