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TttELROSE. Private registers of the height of the river are kept. At Kelso there is a 

 sort of Tvveedometer. 



Andrew Goodfellow. — Has known the Tweed since he was a boy. Has 

 seen the disease for 20 years. There was a white spot — a sort of scale — on the 

 surface of the fish, but no fungus. It is worse this year. Did not examine 

 the fish. The fish appeared uneasy. It killed them. Has seen them every 

 season for 20 years. It has been worse this season than ever before. The 

 fungus was worse. Has seen the white mark on the ^fungus. Fungus 

 follows on the white mark. The white spot comes first, and then the fungus 

 grows on it. 



Has cut up salmon the last two years, and has observed nothing the matter 

 with the intestines ; the blood was a little pale. They were clean salmon, but 

 there were more kelts than clean salmon. Never cut below the back of the 

 fish. 



The disease does not take long to kill the fish ; it spreads very rapidly. 

 Has seen it as far as Dryburgh and down to Twizell. 



It is an external disease. Did not observe it so much in 1877. It is worse 

 this year than ever. Bull-trout, eels, trout, and all fish in the Tweed are 

 affected. 



The severe winter and pollutions are the cause. The kelts were unable to 

 get down. The disease is contagious. The diseased fish communicate the 

 disease to each other. 



The pollutions are not much different from what they have been the last 

 few years, except that this season they are much worse owing to the hard 

 winter. The pollution of the water has been the cause. 



Overcrowding is not the cause. Breeding fish have been very scarce. The 

 fish must get down to the salt water, but the fish in fresh water get better. 

 Fresh water trout and sea-trout will get better. The disease does not always 

 kill. 



Would have all diseased fish taken out; it should be done under the 

 direction of the Tweed Commissioners. It was ^done last season. Never saw 

 it done before. 



Kippers should be taken after the 15th April. There are far more male than 

 female fish in the river. There is little difference between the males and 

 females diseased. 



By pollutions means water from the factories at Galashiels. His waters 

 are 12 or 14 miles below there. The pollutions are worse on Monday after 

 5 p.m. On Sunday and Monday the water is quite clean and pure. On 

 Monday, after 5 p.m., and all the week, it is like ink. It must be bad for the 

 fish. It should be filtered. It is a bluish black. 



Has watched fish on the spawning beds. They destroy one another's redds. 

 There are more males than females on the redds. They fight a good deal. 

 Has not observed whether the eggs are diseased. 



Has landed well-mended bull-trout with the disease disappearing. Has 

 never caught well-mended salmon getting better. 



Kelts do eat a few smolts. The disease, 20 years ago, was always confined 

 to kelts, both bull-trout and salmon. Never saw well-mended salmon with it. 

 Never saw them get better till this season. Saw a good many all spotted 

 over 30 years ago. A good many kelts were diseased, some not. This year, 

 for the first time, the disease extended to clean fish. This was at the end of 

 April. It was in the Mertoun water formerly among the kelts, but not among 

 the clean fish, though there were clean fish there. Saw it himself before he 

 heard of it. First saw the clean fish diseased in April. The extension of the 

 disease to the clean fish is owing to the late winter and the pollutions and the 

 number of salmon. Very few salmon kelts are in the river this season — not 

 one kelt to 20 formerly. There were frequent snow-brew spates. There was 

 fresh water in May and the disease disappeared. The disease disappeared 

 because the river cleared away the disease, and not the fish. The cold weather 

 will cause disease. 



The disease never penetrates through the skin. The flesh is perfectly 

 healthy below the spots. Believes, however, it eats in. 



Robert Richardson, fisherman to Major-General Hendry. — Uses the rod 

 only at Melrose. Begins to fish 1st February, and goes on to 30th 

 November. First observed disease at the end of February 1879. Has seen it 



