This point in the river Tay was found to be near Car- 

 pow Bank, immediately below the junction of the Earn 



progress of the fry towards the sea, he ' depones, That he has 

 ' been acquainted with Salmon-fry for twenty-seven years ; 

 ' and, on the 28th of April last (1809), he saw a great quantity 

 ' drawn ashore at Stockgreen, by the nets used in the net and 

 ' coble fishing part of which were left on the bank, and part 

 ' went back into the river with the net. Depones, That the 

 ' deponent and Shepherd never used the small meshed net a- 

 ' bove the mouth of the Earn, as the Salmon-fry was visible 

 ' to the naked eye in the Tay a little above that spot ; and the 

 ' reason for using the small meshed net at Carpow was, because 

 ' the Salmon fry there ceased to be visible. Depones, That the 

 ? result of this survey is, that below Carpow-Bank the deponent 

 1 and Shepherd found no Salmon-fry, although they fished the 



* river with the small meshed net, both in the eddy water and 



* in the stream. Depones, That during all the time he has 

 ' fished for spirlings, he has never found any Salmon-fry in 

 ' these spirling-nets, although the deponent believes that the 

 ' fry goes down the river in the month of April ; and the nets 

 ' used for catching spirlings are so small in the mesh, that 

 ' they would catch Salmon-fry, as they have caught spirling- 



f fry, which is smaller than Salmon-fry. Depones, That dur- t 



* ing the survey of the stake-nets, along with Shepherd, the 

 ' deponent just saw one foul Jish or kelt in the Monorgan stake* 

 ' net, which was taken out and thrown back into the river* De- 

 ' pones, That during their survey, the deponent was generally 

 1 in the stake-net before thejishers came to take out the Jish. De 

 ' pones, That they observed no Salmon-fry in the Tay till the 

 ' 28th day of April, when they first saw them at the Coal Shore , 

 ' immediately below Perth, in thousands, and found them down- 

 ' wards all the way, till within half a mile above the junction of 

 ' the Earn with the Tay. Depones, That at high water, and at 



