There are 26,000 domestic salmon anglers in Newfoundland and 3,500 commercial fishermen with salmon licenses.
The venerable Blue Charm is well known by salmon anglers on both sides of the Atlantic.
Nova Scotia has a special appeal to salmon anglers.
This is particularly true if you are only, as I am, an occasional salmon angler.
It is a popular site among trout and salmon anglers.
Norway has already set aside $700,000 for the Faeroese, and, to help pay for this, will increase the license fees paid by its sport and commercial salmon anglers.
French and his partner, Joan Magrauth, have launched a guiding service on the Rapid River for trout and salmon anglers.
In a few seasons on the water, a good guide will accumulate more salmon fishing savvy than the occasional salmon angler does in a lifetime.
Nearly 40 million Americans, about 12 million of them trout and salmon anglers, spend more than $20 billion a year on freshwater sport fishing.
The lack of rain has also affected those who earn their livelihood by guiding salmon anglers.