article_snippet: Nigel Mott, 71, has been catching salmon in traditional basket traps since the 1970s and once netted up to 600 fish a year worth £100 each.
article_snippet: Nigel Mott is the last remaining commercial salmon fisherman on the Severn and claims it is impossible for Nigel Mott to make a living if Nigel Mott is restricted to catching just 30 fish in a season .
article_snippet: Nigel's home in Stroat, Gloucestershire, is around six miles from the town of Lydney, off which he fishes.
article_snippet: The 71-year-old used to catch up to 600 salmon a year worth £100 each .
article_snippet: Nigel continued to use Nigel putcher rank - an array of 650 basket-like traps - and hit the quota in just 26 days.
article_snippet: his claims his form of fishing has minimal impact on salmon in the Severn, as his putchers stretch out just a couple of hundred metres from the riverbank.
article_snippet: That leaves a mile of open water for his 31st fish to swim past his cages, his argued, allowing plenty of space.
highlights_snippet: Nigel Mott has been fishing with traditional basket traps since the 1970s .
  
highlights_snippet: 71-year-old argued Nigel Mott could not get by catching just 30 salmon a season .
  
highlights_snippet: Nigel, of Stroat, Gloucestershire, argues his 'putcher' traps have  minimal impact on salmon levels in the Severn as fish can easily swim past fish .