Guarding the Silver: A Life with Salmon and Sea Trout by Sean Nixon (Signed by the Author) (HQ604)

Published 1999: Second Edition / Softcover / Excellent Condition / Illustrated throughout / Signed by the Author

Original pictorial stiff card covers with white titles on the cover and spine. 152 as new very clean and bright pages. Slight shelf wear might be expected. Scarce! (HQ604)

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Western Hero: Irish Times Article., 2000

One of the best pictures of life in the West comes, unsurprisingly from Sean Nixon, a man who has spent a lifetime "Guarding the Silver", as his book is entitled, i.e. guarding the sea trout and salmon in the service of fisheries management, and for long on behalf of the Western Regional Fisheries Board. It is not just a book for anglers, for he takes in the life all around him. Apart from the anglers and poachers there are the poteen makers, and other extras on the stage; there is the wild bird and animal life. (At a time when it was legitimate to kill otters, to protect the precious fish, his largest was 5ft 7ins from nose-tip to tail end.) He notices the losses - the corncrake, the grouse, the merlin, a small hawk which, he says used to be common around Connemara lakes. In a nest of their eggs, not one hatched. He blames high levels of DDT. But people, not always met in friendly circumstances, throng the pages. "During my fifty years of protecting and developing fisheries, I have been shot at, threatened with knives, assaulted with sticks, bars and other implements, abused verbally and threatened with having my house burned down. Luckily, despite a number of x-rays and trips to the local doctor and hospital, my various injuries were never too serious."

https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/western-hero-1.280681