A summit meeting in Norway on salmon fishing has called on Ireland to increase the number of salmon in our rivers and to stop drift netting of salmon at sea.

Report shows fishing trawlers.

Salmon being weighed.

Carton of freshly caught salmon in ice at a fishing port.

Interview with Don O'Neill Flanagan, Salmon and Trout Conservation Council, on the madness of catching salmon commercially.

The reporter is Michael Ryan.

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