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fishes returned to the stream, while it must not be overlooked 
that with a decrease of salmon it is generally possible to 
increase the head of trout. This plan has been denounced as 
a selfish one of the up-country proprietors, but one cannot see 
why they should not enhance the value of their fisheries by 
increasing their stock, affording sport to anglers, and augment- 
ing the supply of food to the public. 
Investigations should likewise be carried out by competent 
parties into the decrease or destruction of shad, twaite, 
flounders, and lampreys in the upper waters subsequent to the 
erection of the navigation weirs, and what steps would be 
necessary to prevent a continuation of this loss. While it 
might be as well to never permit any water bailiff to be like- 
wise in the pay of any angling society or owner of a fishery, 
as such might possibly be a cause of his work not being so 
strictly carried out as it ought to be. 
For the sake of the fisheries the abstraction or deflection of 
the waters of the Severn should be watched with the greatest 
solicitude, pollutions should be stopped, obstructions should be 
overcome in the best possible way, stationary modes of fishing 
(except for eels and lampreys) should be forbidden, and the 
manner of netting, size of the mesh of the nets, as well as the 
proceedings of anglers, ought to be jealously watched in order 
that the greatest benefits might accrue to all. 
