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Has watched the Denvent, the Annan, thej Eden, the Tweed, the Teviot, KESWICK, 

 and the Nith. 



The stock of fish in the river is very short. Does not agree with the 

 overcrowding theory. The Denvent is less stocked than the Annan, a great 

 deal less than the Tweed, and less than the Nith. The river would hold a 

 good many more fish, indeed, than it does. Never saw anything the least like 

 the present disease. Has seen dead kelts with wounds, but never with fungus. 



Watches the Greta and St. John's Beck. They are neither full of spawning 

 fish. There is plenty of room for fish. 



Has seen fish with disease spots the size of half-a-crown, and they got bigger. 

 Cannot say if the fish have ever come up with it from the sea. Thinks the 

 disease is a river disease. 



There is plenty of food in the lakes. 



The spawning beds are sometimes short of water. The river is sometimes 

 low. It was very low in December 1878, and in the spring of 18/9, owing to 

 the frost, and there was less disease afterwards. 



The water was middling low in 1878, but not so low as in 1879. The 

 disease was worse when the water was higher. The fish can be seen better in 

 low water 



Captain Wladimir B. J. Jackson, Keswick. — Knows the Denvent. Fishes 

 the Greta, Derwent, and St. John's Beck. Fishes from Derwentwater to Bassen- 

 thwaite. The fish vary in quantity according to the year. Heard of diseased 

 fish after February 1878. Saw a trout of 1 lb. diseased. Examined it and 

 thought it had been under a mill wheel, being wounded. The watcher took 

 it home and found it was diseased. Saw also kelts, both of salmon and 

 trout. Tried to catch some fish. One was a trout of ^ lb. ; from the head to 

 halfway down jthe body it was like a white kid glove. It was quite blind. The 

 matter was like a floating stuff, like fur, similar to the specimens produced. 

 The fungus was white. The fish was in 9 inches of water, and was dying. 

 The fish could see him, as one eye was not quite blinded. Never heard of 

 anything like it before. 



Has heard of a case where a man got some minnows which were kept in a 

 separate vessel, and they had the disease. Is pretty sure it was the same 

 disease. They were caught with a small poke net. They were not injured. 

 Never heard of minnows being diseased before last year. 



Thinks it is like the grouse disease, but cannot say what is its cause. 



There have been more fish in previous years, when there was no disease, 

 than there are now. There were not so many when it first appeared. The 

 water must get stagnated in the pools at low water. The river has not been 

 lower than usual. 



It would be well to give permission to bury dead kelts, and to allow all kelts 

 to be killed -with the rod after March. 



In 1877 got two well-mended kelts. The fish called the hardhead is caught 

 here — the great lake trout c Believes there are char. 



William Hodson. — Lives by Ulleswater. Has been an angler for many 

 years. For 25 years fished in the Ellen, and has fished there lately. Fishes 

 the Eamont : not the Eden. Saw two or three cases of trout in Ulleswater 

 with disease in the spring of 18/9. Other cases may have occurred without 

 being noticed. This was near the centre of the lake, where the water is 

 perfectly clean. 



The mining pollution comes in at the head of the lake. It might affect 

 the water in the middle. Flas been absent 28 years. 40 or 50 years ago 

 there was no such thing. 



There is disease in the Eamont among the trout — clean trout. The Eamont 

 is blocked at Penrith by a weir, which is occasionally passed by salmon. It is 

 possible, but not probable, that diseased salmon have reached the lake. No 

 parr are found there. Thinks the disease must have been propagated in the 

 lake. 



Would destroy all dead and dying fish. It would be difficult to do this in 

 Ulleswater. 



The stock in the last 40 years has fallen off, but believes it is now 

 improving. It is much less than it was 48 years ago. Overstocking is not 

 the cause of the disease. 



Has fished the Ellen for 35 years. 



