Mr. HUGH THOMAS : ' Salmon Catching'
THIS week's 'unknown workers' are the salmon fishermen who cast their nets in a lovely reach of the Severn just below Tewkesbury. Theirs is an ancient craft, and the rights of the fishing in the reach Mr. Thomas describes were secured by Magna Carta. From these fishermen in the rivers of the West of England comes much of the salmon marketed, and this description of their methods and background gives a fascinating glimpse of a little-known, but picturesque, occupation.