Canada: Avid outdoorsman expresses concern over Atlantic salmon returns on Newfoundland and Labrador’s rivers

Gord Follett was looking forward to spending six days on the Lower Humber River trying to land one of the monster late-season fish the western Newfoundland river is famous for. Three days into his late-August adventure, the avid and well-known outdoorsman packed up and went back home to St. John’s. Before departing, he made a video from his boat on the river, not only explaining his disappointment with the slow fishing, but his concern for the health of the Atlantic salmon stock as a whole. This was not the first trip he had cut short. In the last two years, Follett has planned half a dozen six- or seven-day fishing trips around the province and this was the fifth time he went home early. It was also not his only trip to the Humber River this season. Follett also fished there in late July with no luck whatsoever. Slack lines Besides the Humber, Follett fished the southwestern rives like Crabbes and Robinsons early in the season before moving on to the Torrent, Big East and River ...