Laird fined £9000 for altering course of River Tay 'to improve fishing on his estate'

[Elton]

A LAIRD who changed the course of the River Tay was fined £9000 by a sheriff yesterday.

 

Article here:

http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottish...86908-23708387/

[Phone]

All,

 

What's a Laird?

 

According to the article he was protecting the river from otter.

 

Phone

[Elton]

I had to look it up, Phone LOL Some kind of gentry, it appears:

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laird

[Newt]

A gent who is £9000 + the cost of undoing his changers poorer than he was.

[Phone]

Elton,

 

I too looked before asking. Not much there, in the dictionary. I thought perhaps it was a title from Royal appointment or something like that.

 

Newt, Such a "gent" as yourself. No step for a stepper.

 

Phone

[poledark]

Quite large stretches of the Tay have been altered/managed for almost 100 years. Almost always to improve the river bed for salmon anglers. Banks of gravel, large boulders/various timber structures etc allow wading access. Bosun chairs are quite common sights on many parts!

 

Den

[tgrenshaw]

I bet £9k was just loose change......