The Salmon: Their Fight for Survival
Anthony Netboy ©1974
ISBN 0-395-14013-7

pg. 19 In the 1960's it was not unusual to see different Pacific salmon species swim in discontinuous bands hundreds of miles long.

pg. 96 ... the largest known Irish salmon was a fifty-eight-pounder caught on the Shannon in 1872.

Philip II paid a large sum to (fish Irish waters). Upto 600 Spanish vessels were fishng (...) Irish (waters) until1588. Rights were sold, or granted, later to Sweden, Holland and France, respectively.

pg. 98 stone weir at Galway & Leixlip
Lismore Weir 1575-1944 was profitable.

1863 Salmon Fisheries Act

pg. 118 'Pliny the Elder' first mentions Salmo Salar

pg. 123 After the Revolution of 1789 the rivers were looted.

pg. 139 The Rhine 'has been called the Longest Sewer in Europe.'