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TROUT BUYERS BEWARE
As a keen supporter of WildFish’s Off the Table campaign against the consumption of farmed salmon [News, December issue], I was delighted to see that in The perfect guest [also December] you featured smoked trout rather than smoked salmon. More importantly, smoked trout from trout that have been reared in fresh water rather than in marine farms. As WildFish’s Andrew Graham-Stewart reminded me, in the past two years the highest lice numbers recorded in Scotland (up to an astonishing 25 adult female lice per trout) have been in Dawnfresh’s rainbow trout farms in Loch Etive. Buyer beware.
Michael Joynson, by email
SQUIRRELED AWAY
Like many others we have had an exceptional apple harvest – both eaters and cookers. Our eaters are first: lovely red Discovery, which store until about early October, and then the delicious Herefordshire Russets.
My ‘storage’ is a large old table in our all-purpose garage, where the apples are held in old fruit containers then covered with newspaper; room for around 120 at a time. In September, I noticed some chewing on the Discovery section, so I put out mouse traps. Later, when
