{"id":523,"date":"2014-07-11T14:54:05","date_gmt":"2014-07-11T14:54:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.clanmaciain.com\/maciain\/?p=523"},"modified":"2014-09-02T15:02:37","modified_gmt":"2014-09-02T15:02:37","slug":"traditional-salmon-fishing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.clanmaciain.com\/maciain\/traditional-salmon-fishing\/","title":{"rendered":"Traditional Salmon Fishing"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_524\" style=\"width: 1034px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.csysi.co.uk\/maciain\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/1-salmon-fish.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-524\" class=\"wp-image-524\" src=\"http:\/\/www.csysi.co.uk\/maciain\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/1-salmon-fish.jpg\" alt=\"Salmon fishing\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.clanmaciain.com\/maciain\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/1-salmon-fish.jpg 1500w, http:\/\/www.clanmaciain.com\/maciain\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/1-salmon-fish-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.clanmaciain.com\/maciain\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/1-salmon-fish-1024x682.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-524\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dochie Cameron&#8217;s coble moored by Mingary Pier<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Local man Dochie Cameron is one of the few traditional salmon fishermen left in Scotland. \u00a0During the short summer season he takes his boat, a &#8216;coble&#8217;, out to where his net is strung from the shore to a netted holding area. \u00a0When wild salmon migrating\u00a0along the coast meet the net, they swim seawards until they are trapped. \u00a0Most of Dochie&#8217;s salmon go away to be smoked.<\/p>\n<p>At one time, Fascadale, on Ardnamurchan&#8217;s north shore, used to be the centre of a huge salmon-fishing operation. \u00a0Thousands of salmon were caught and shipped by train to restaurants down south, but the fishery was over-exploited and collapsed. \u00a0Today, Dochie&#8217;s wild salmon are sold at a premium.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Local man Dochie Cameron is one of the few traditional salmon fishermen left in Scotland. \u00a0During the short summer season he takes his boat, a &#8216;coble&#8217;, out to where his net is strung from&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":524,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73,82],"tags":[18,70],"class_list":["post-523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-businesses","category-photo-of-the-week","tag-ardnamurchan","tag-kilchoan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.clanmaciain.com\/maciain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.clanmaciain.com\/maciain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.clanmaciain.com\/maciain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.clanmaciain.com\/maciain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.clanmaciain.com\/maciain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=523"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.clanmaciain.com\/maciain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":525,"href":"http:\/\/www.clanmaciain.com\/maciain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523\/revisions\/525"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.clanmaciain.com\/maciain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.clanmaciain.com\/maciain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.clanmaciain.com\/maciain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.clanmaciain.com\/maciain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}