700 ANNEXE I 
TABLE II 
Weight of Salmon caught in Severn for the 10 years 1894-1903. 
1894 1895 1896 1897 1898 1899 1900 1901 1902 1903 
6 k°,123 
6 k°,010 
5 k°,897 
5 k°,783 
5 k°,670 
5 k°,556 
5 k°443 
5 k°,330 
5 k°,216 


Fish caught [11,800] 13,000 | 18,000 15,000 | 8,500 | 10,000 | 10,500 | 18,000 | 21,000 | 25,000 | 
The Severn Salmon are therefore now confined to medium sized fish 
4536 grammes to 9072 grammes fish, that have migrated twice or three 
times from the sea. The points on the migration for consideration 
therefore are : 
1. What becomes of the fish bred in the Severn on their first return 
to fresh water from the sea: as Grilse they do not come up the Severn, 
do they go up any other river or do they for some reason spend their 
Grilse life in the sea instead of returning to fresh water ? 
2. Why do the older fish and not the Grilse ascend the Severn if they 
have, as is generally supposed, been back to the fresh water as Grilse ? 
Some very important questions arise on these facts (1) what has become 
of the Severn Grilse? Do the fish for some reason miss the Grilse stage 
altogether and only return as mature fish. This is possible but it would 
be an unheard of fact in Salmon history : or do the Severn bred grilse 
return to some other river. This seems the more likely explanation but 
itis very difficult to say to what river they return as during the time 
the Grilse have been absent from the Severn it does not appear from the 
evidence available that in any of the rivers flowing into the Severn Sea 
there has been a larger number of Grilse than usual. They may go further 
afield but so far no river has been heard of with an abnormal number of 
