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Mon 08 Aug 2009Moss is hooked on Moy
ANGLING NOTES:THE River Moy is one of the most productive Atlantic salmon rivers in the world, according to marine expert Dr Ken Whelan. In a good year, rod catches of 10,000 are recorded and the overall stock of fish is somewhere in the region of 115,000, he says.
Comparisons with the Ponoi River in Russia are revealing. The Moy catchment, at 2,000 sq km, equates to a peak rod catch of five salmon per square kilometre, whereas the Ponoi, at 16,000 sq km, accounts for just one.
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