Salmon fisherman at the weir in Shrewsbury with his landed Salmon
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Salmon fisherman at the weir in Shrewsbury with his landed Salmon
Image: © Jeremy Bolwell Taken: 7 Mar 2021
The man retrieved his catch from the landing net and stood to eye up the mighty fish, its gleaming sides a shocking white, topped with silver and black dots - a mighty Severn Salmon! The wild tamed for a few seconds... Two worlds collide; the fish must have looked about at us, its mind reeling and its body in crisis in this alien world, maybe it comprehended us amid the torture, despair and extreme fatigue and looked down at the waters which a few minutes earlier it swam as apex predator... Now it was caught and reduced to a potential food item, a prey item itself. What an inversion.
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Image Location
Latitude
52.712802
Longitude
-2.739192