We read in the local rag this morning of correspondence from Brian Davidson, a Senior Civil Servant at the Scottish Government, to Landed Estates in Scotland advising them to make contact with the local Police Wildlife Crime Officer to undertake joint anti-salmon poaching patrols from now on.
Extraordinarily, Mr Davidson sees removing a wild-run salmon from the open seas as A Wildlife Crime!!!!! But, according to our man Mr Davidson, if a Scottish Landed Estate - for example our favourite Estate, Grimersta - were to take that same salmon, there would be no crime at all committed!!!!! What Mr Davidson makes of removing a salmon farm escapee fish he doesn't say.
It's a funny old world but, sadly, for the pen-pushing Civil Servant Mr Davidson, he's a thousand years too late to stop this most noble and honourable of callings. Meanwhile, the logic of the pen-pusher remains as impenetrable as ever.
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