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CORXHILL- More money will be paid for a kelt than a baggit. It is inconsistsnt to 

 ON -TWE ED. kin baggits and spare kelts. Has seen baggits netted with the spawn run- 

 ning out of them. Kelts should be killed and baggits spared. If this were 

 done, rod fishing might be permitted all the year round. 



More female fish are killed than males. One male will serve for more than 

 one female fish. 



Kippers will not take the fly like baggits. Thinks the disease is the same 

 as formerly. All the symptoms are the same. 



On the redds the cocks fight. Has seen them fighting at Coldstream. 



There are plenty of eels. Thinks they take salmon eggs. One man has 

 caught six and eight stone of a night this year. They are injurious to salmon 

 eggs. 



Foul fish should be buried above high water mark. Thinks disease is 

 caused by overcrowding. 



The kelts he saw eating smolts were chiefly bull-trout kelts. 



The temperature of the river yesterday was 52°. In May it was 58°. The 

 temperature of his spring was 48° yesterday. Last May it was 43°. The 

 disease was pretty well gone then. Never knew the temperature to vary so 

 much as this year. The spring comes out of a hill near here. 



The spawn runs out of the minnows, and they got the fungus when they 

 were spawning. This is the same as the evidence of salmon being unable to 

 spawn in the ice. The minnows did not spawn, but shed their roe. 



Pollutions may aggravate the disease. 



Thinks the disease is caused by overcrowding from the evidence of his 

 minnow boxes. 



John Scott, fisherman. — Fishes the Tweed. Has known the river since 

 he was a boy. Fished Mr. Huntly's water for 27 years. Has seen diseased 

 kelts, spotted with white spots. Thinks this was due to fighting. Many lay 

 dead with their tails corroded. Saw no fungus. Round about the wound was 



a white scab. Has seen this for many years among both females and males 



more among the females than the males. Has seen large males without much 

 of a wound lying by the side of the river. 



Has seen clean salmon this year with fungus, but never before. First saw 

 it in the beginning of April, when some kelts were lying dead. The disease 

 was at the back side of the head. Believes it is like a cancer. Could put his 

 thumb into the hole. It eats away the ventral and anal fins, and half the tail, 

 so that only the stump is left. Never saw it before. The fungus eats away the 

 flesh. Noticed one especially, and could put a stick right into the skull ; it 

 had a little sore also on the nose. 



The frost broke twice, and there were a number of salmon, and no eddies for 

 them, and they could not make their nests. The salmon got damaged, and 

 could not get any rest till they got into deep water. Many went to the sea. 

 The ice broke, and the fish rose up and got injured in the ice. 



Never saw so many spotted fish. The kelts were all torn to pieces with the 

 ice. _ They are not so strong as the clean salmon, and they could not withstand 

 the ice. 



The fungus is a disease of itself. Never saw it before. It is quite new. A 

 gentleman get 400 salmon all with fungus, and they were all buried. This 

 was on the Esk, in Sir F. Graham's water. There was no disease here then. 

 Plenty of dead fish used to come down formerly. 



The factories are the cause of it, by sending pollutions into the river. One fish 

 ran right into the bank, and it was quite stiff, through something wrong in 

 the inside. This was two or three years ago, and happened close by here. 

 Thought the fish was poisoned by the pollutions coming down. There is 

 much manure laid on the lands, and it is injurious to the fish. 



The fish jump right up and rise differently from what they formerly did. 

 Believes this is due to the pollution. People drink the water because they 

 cannot get any other. The manufacturers should make catch pits to catch the 

 pollutions. Mr. Huntly promised to endeavour to cure the pollution. 



The kelts — trout kelts especially— should be all killed, if not by net, at any rate 

 by rod. 



They should be sold. Cannot see why their sale should be prevented. 



There are plenty of good fish now coming up. They are taken by the rod, 

 and are very fine fish. Early in the spring some clean salmon are caught. 



