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Country diary: Lave net fishing is a tradition in trouble | Gwyneth Lewis
Portskewett, Monmouthshire : For hundreds of years this has been a method of catching salmon in the Severn’s churning waters. I visit one of the few fishermen still going Every time I cross the new Severn Bridge leaving Wales, I check the state of the tide, using a buoy in the middle of the channel. I learned to sail in these cocoa-coloured waters of the Bristol Channel, with its ferocious tidal range (the distance…