Tag: poaching

Posted on

Poaching Alert – East Lothian

Local officers from Police Scotland in the East Lothian area are appealing for any information with regards reports of possible deer and fish poaching, in particular between Tyninghame and Knowes Farm areas. Information has been received that person/s are not complying with current Coronavirus restrictions and have attended these areas after dusk in recent days to poach deer and fish. The wildlife crime officer for the area, PC Steven Irvine, is aware of this latest information and appeals to anyone with further intelligence or information to contact him via 101 quoting incident number 3751 07/04/20.

Posted on

ENVIRONMENTAL ALERT FEB/MARCH 2016

The East Lothian Angling Association has been alerted that an organised gang of poachers, based in North East England, are planning to Electrofish rivers and burns in East Lothian and East Edinburgh, within the next 2 weeks.

Locally, in particular the Drem to Peffer burns and the Tyne, but it is suspected they will be everywhere in between. They can wipe out stocks of fish very rapidly.

Please lookout for people with electro fishing gear near burns/rivers and assume that these people are not operating legally and are poachers (on a large scale) and to call the bailiff/police:
Lee Fisher, Salmon Board Bailiff 07887835549