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An assurance that the increase in the poaching of salmon and trout from Scottish rivers is receiving "serious and urgent consideration" from the Government, and the hope that an announcement of their intentions will be made soon, was given in the House of Lords by Lord Morrison, when he replied to a debate initiated by Lord Strabolgi who asked for steps to safeguard the rivers. Opening the debate in the House of Lords, Lord Strabolgi characterised the situation as "a disgraceful and harmful state of affairs". He said it was not a conflict between the poor man poaching for his larder and the wealthy landowner. "I have a sneaking sympathy for what I may call the legitimate poacher; but what we have to deal with is a commercial racket organised by well-to-do people with no morals, carried out by gangsters – unscrupulous men coming often from the big cities with motor cars who denude whole stretches of our rivers of salmon and trout."
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