The end of the line? Trout fishing tradition could be lost forever at famous loch as an invasion of cormorants decimates stocks.

From: The Daily Mail (London, England) | Date: June 1, 2006 | Copyright information

Byline: ALAN SIMPSON

COMPETITIVE fishing on one of the country's most revered trout lochs is to end - after hundreds of cormorants decimated stocks.

Loch Leven in Kinross-shire will no longer be stocked after [pounds sterling]500,000 worth of fish were lost.

Jamie Montgomery, whose family has owned Kinross Estates for 200 years, said yesterday it is no longer viable to keep open the fishery on the 'Queen of Scottish Lochs'.

The loch will no longer be able to host major events, a tradition dating back to the first national fly championship there in the 19th ...

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