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evidence from a writer in " The Field " : 

 " On one of the principal breeding streams 

 that supplies the Shannon, within the last 

 few years a new tail race was made at the 

 Ballyartellagh mill, on the Nenagh river, and 

 the fish are able, in their endeavours to get 

 up stream, to pass a certain distance under 

 the wheel, when they are struck on the head 

 or back of the head by it, and either killed 

 or so much injured that they drop down 

 stream and die. On one occasion, after a 

 small summer flood, when but few fish were 

 running, I saw thirteen picked up ; and if 

 this takes place at that time of year, what 

 must be the destruction when the large run 

 of spawning fish takes place in the autumn ? 

 It is already provided that there shall be 

 guards both above and below, but the old 



