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suffice, and fines, as I said, are remitted by the 

 Viceroys. The Inspectors of Fisheries are not sharp 

 enough. There is one fishery at which a factory is 

 driven by a turbine. A grating prevents the smolts 

 from getting into the wheel ; but as the water runs 

 down in the tail race the salmon are left behind, and 

 are picked up by the workers at night and at meal 

 hours. This could be remedied by putting a fine 

 grating to prevent the fish from getting into the 

 tail race, and keeping them in the river until a 

 flood should allow them to go over the weir into 

 the main river." 



The BUSH, in County Antrim, is not what it 

 should be. Dr. Traill, Provost of Trinity College, 

 Dublin, says : 



" I have the right of fishing in the river for three 

 miles along my property, above the waterfall, which 

 is about three-quarters of a mile above Bushmills. 

 The rod-fishing along my lands is nothing like what 

 it used to be, owing to a falling-off of fish in the 

 river on account of occasional visitations of disease, 

 and to the constant violations of the fishery laws 

 on the lower portion of the river. To save a lawsuit 

 in 1863, I took my grant under the several fishery, 

 rather than proceed to establish my own rights. 

 The several fishery now vests in Sir Francis and 

 Lord Macnaghten. The agent, Mr. Douglas, con- 

 stantly erects walls across the mouth of the river, 

 so as to keep the fish down in pools, where they 

 are drafted out by nets at every tide. They are 

 also kept from getting far up the river on the open 



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