MORE SEALS EQUALS LESS SALMON

It was interesting to note in the Feb/March issue of your publication the article about the number of grey seal pups (1,806) having been recorded at St Abbs Head.

This was alongside a piece about the Missing Salmon Alliance, a group set up to save the Atlantic salmon from extinction. I wonder if many other readers saw the obvious connection.

What do they think that 1,806 seals feed on? These seals, combined with the explosion in seal numbers at the Farne Islands will, without doubt, affect the number of salmon getting into the River Tweed. This predation will only increase through time, as culling, the old solution to the problem, will never be allowed again.

I frequently see salmon taken by seals in the Tweed estuary and they have been sighted as far upstream as Coldstream, 14 miles inland. Keith Cardigan, Berwick upon Tweed