River Tyne Salmon Rod Catch Statistics

[Editor]

The Tyne is now the best salmon river in England and has shown very good growth since almost dying as a salmon river in the 1950s due to industrial and household pollution of its estuary.

Salmon rod catch

2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009	10 year average
2,297	2,513	2,585	2,163	4,122	3,591	3,795	3,091	3,389	2,986	3,053

How does the Tyne compare to its neighbouring rivers?

This chart plots salmon rod catch trends on the three main North East England salmon rivers.

[Seeking]

Fascinating stuff, Editor

Out of interest, what is the ratio used for comparing the Coquet, Tyne and wear? i.e. what does "1" represent?

[Editor]

Seeking

My charts are graphs that allow for clearer trend comparisons. The 1 represents the average rod catch over the period.

Regards

Colin