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This paper describes the catch data available to assess Scottish salmon stocks, discusses the limitations of the data and indicates the differences which can arise when catch records are used to measure the strength of salmon stocks and to make comparisons between years.
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Shearer, W.M. (1988). Relating Catch Records to Stocks. In: Mills, D., Piggins, D. (eds) Atlantic Salmon. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-1235-9_14
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