I was curious about whether these were local Scottish salmon on imported salmon - traditionally there was a fair amount of salmon caught at sea near to the mouths of rivers in Scotland but that has mostly stopped - partially, as far as I know, from pressure from the landowners who own fishing rights to rivers & lochs. Fishing in Scotland can be extremely expensive.

NB I am in Scotland and eat a fair bit of salmon and I wasn't aware of the "line caught" label.

Edit: And by "extremely expensive" I mean up to £10,000 a fish.

> I was curious about whether these were local Scottish salmon on imported salmon

Not easy to know, but many could be imported from Denmark probably, scottish and faroese salmons are in the same population.

> Fishing in Scotland can be extremely expensive

The NASCO headquarters are in Edinburgh in fact. Is a measure to try to recover the species. To fish the genetically better specimens just a week before to spawn is a silly move (you are killing millions of fingerlings).

http://www.nasco.int/

Americans are also worried about the US fisheries and concerned about the need to preserve the resource. All atlantic salmon in the US market is farm-raised.

http://www.fishwatch.gov/seafood_profiles/species/salmon/spe...