Scotland’s historic salmon fishers in pictures by Colin McPherson

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According to the Guardian, photographer Colin McPherson has spent the last three decades working on Catching the Tide, a lyrical portrayal of salmon net fishing in Scotland. His images pay tribute to the skill and courage of fishers facing the loss of their livelihoods and traditional way of life. Once a thriving industry employing thousands along Scotland's coastline, the sector faced a sharp decline from the mid-1990s due to a complex mix of economic and environmental factors, the boom in cheap farmed fish, pollution, and climate change. In 2016, the Scottish government placed a moratorium on catching wild Atlantic salmon by interceptory nets. The project has been published as a book titled Catching the Tide: Salmon Net Fishing in Scotland by Dewi Lewis.