128 SALMON FISHING 



noons weekly during the run of grilse, in June and 

 July. In 1900 Lord Lovat acquired the fishing 

 rights at the mouth of the river, and had the nets 

 there taken off. Since then the fish have had a clear 

 run. A hatchery, capable of rearing 300,000 young 

 fish every year, was erected in 1899, and it has con- 

 tributed to improvement of the stock. There is no 

 pollution. 



The SPEAN, flowing out of Loch Laggan, in 

 Inverness-shire, has a high reputation. It is the 

 chief tributary of the Lochy, into which it falls at 

 Muccomer Pool, seven miles from the sea. Sir John 

 Ramsden's Gamekeeper at Dalnacarry, Mr. Robert 

 Carr, writes : 



" Salmon run to Monessie Falls, nine miles above 

 Muccomer. There are not so many now as there 

 were long ago, when ten to a rod in a day were 

 not wonderful. Endeavours to increase the stock 

 are constant. There are about 100,000 ova arti- 

 ficially hatched every year, and the parrs are put 

 into the river. All the natural spawning is well 

 protected, and poaching is practically abolished. 

 The sole cause of the mischief is that fish in large 

 numbers are taken every year in the bag nets on the 

 coasts. Until the nets are taken off there will be 

 but little chance of lasting improvement. Nets are 

 not allowed at the mouth of the Lochy or elsewhere 

 within the jurisdiction of the Lochy District Fishery 

 Board." 



The LOCHY, in Inverness -shire, is a first-class 

 river. Mr. Thomas Allison, Inverlochy, writes : 



