6 The Salmon 
their forays and found them to be full of smolts. As the smolts 
Ist May 1905. 
6.—Life-size Smolt. 
FIG. 

have so many enemies to 
evade, too little attention 
is paid to their protection. 
Our young grouse would 
fare: badly if protected: in 
a similarly scanty manner. 
In some rivers, trout-anglers 
are prohibited from fishing 
during the time of migration, 
but during the remainder 
of the season the parr are 
slaughtered in thousands. I 
am certain that in the Tay 
district at least one thousand 
parr and smolts per day, from 
April to September, find their 
way into the angler’s basket. 
This is a gross total of about 
157,000 for six months, and 
if four per cent found’ theik 
way back as salmon, the gain 
would amount to 6280. Now 
this alone would be a good 
yield: for many” rivers; but 
if we take into consideration 
the ever-increasing number 
destroyed by birds, the victims 
of seals, coal-fish, pollution, 
etc., we find that the destruc- 
tion and loss are appalling. 
Sooner or later those having 
the power to rectify this matter will waken up, and at no distant date 
our rivers will be teeming with salmon. The wheels of legislation 
