A FOREST pensioner has been left out of pocket but with victory in a long-running case involving salmon fishing on the Severn Estuary.

Mr Nigel Mott, 76, who had been fishing near Lydney for the past half-century, was awarded £187,278 in compensation by the High Court in Birmingham last week after his battle with the Environment Agency finally ended.

But, said the pensioner from Stroat, there is more legal discussions afoot about the issue.

It was a bitter-sweet victory for Mr Mott, who has had a licence to fish salmon on the Estuary since 1968.

He has been battling the Enviornment Agency’s decision in 2012 to cut his catch, fished with ‘putchers’, a type of basket, off the Lydney shore from six hundred fish a year to just thirty.