Salmon Gallery

Clearcut logging on Inside Passage to Alaska, Ketchikan, Alaska, USA

Ketchikan is an Alaskan city facing the Inside Passage, a popular cruise route along the state's south-eastern coast. It's known for its many Native American totem poles, on display throughout town. Nearby Misty Fiords National Monument is a glacier-carved wilderness featuring snow-capped mountains, waterfalls and salmon spawning streams. It's also home to rich wildlife including black bears, wolves and bald eagles

© Michael Qualls / Danita Delimont

Salmon Fishing at Mudeford, Christchurch, Hampshire

Salmon Fishing at Mudeford, Christchurch, Hampshire, England. The oldest of the buildings on Mudeford Quay (pictured on this card) are now known as Dutch Cottages, formerly (collectively) as Haven House. They were erected together with an adjoining quay in about 1687. in 2012, the last remaining netsmen ceased impeding the passage of salmon to the River Avon and River Stour spawning grounds, ancient netting rights exchanged for a financial compensation package.
circa 1910s

© Mary Evans / Grenville Collins Postcard Collection

Salmon fishing with ghillie from a boat on the River Wye

Salmon fishing with ghillie from a boat on the River Wye, Herefordshire. This picture story caused a rumpus when it was published in The Times on Tuesday Jan 27th 1987 - the day that the salmon fishing season opened. The salmon in the picture was, in fact, out of the freezer and had not been caught the day before - out of season. The picture was set up Date: 1987

© Philip Dunn / Mary Evans Picture Library