The magnificent sculpture of the leaping salmon outside the Man of Ross pub featured in a Canadian newspaper recently.

The Vancouver Sun is running a campaign to make the salmon the symbol of British Columbia in response to the threat it is under from economic development. In a recent poll the statement that: "Wild salmon are as culturally important to the people of British Columbia as the French language is to the people of Quebec," was widely supported.

The Vancouver Sun also questioned why there are public salmon sculptures in other parts of the world. They featured the leaping salmon, created by local sculptor Walenty Pytel, at the top of Wye Street.

The caption read:?"This leaping salmon sculpture is in Ross-on-Wye in southern England, near the Welsh border. Do they take eco-protection more seriously?"