SALMON FISHING 



lady of Colonel Eagles 1 acquaintance killed two 

 salmon last season. 



The FOWEY shows a lamentable falling -off. It 

 is hard to say whether pollution from mines is the 

 sole cause. Mr. W. Pease, junior, clerk to the 

 Fishery Board, writes : 



"It is certain that the numbers of fish taken, 

 either by net or by rod and line, have been growing 

 smaller year by year; but until the last two years 

 those that died died fairly, and not by poison. 

 During the last two seasons on four or five separate 

 occasions fish have been found dead in hundreds. 

 My brother and I took over two dozen fry from 

 the bottom end of a single pool. Another time 

 the bailiff brought in three large fish. These were 

 sent to the Board of Fisheries and Agriculture 

 for analysis, and were found to contain large 

 quantities of copper. The law which compels 

 Boards of Conservators to produce the dead fish 

 and the poisonous water actually the cause of the 

 deaths, in order to secure a conviction, which law 

 will not allow a County Council to proceed against 

 an offending mine without the permission of a higher 

 authority, and leaves the real remedy in the hands 

 of apathetic landowners, must, I am afraid, eventu- 

 ally be held responsible for the destruction of the 

 Fowey as a salmon river. If sufficient poison can be 

 sent down to destroy fish of 7 or 8 Ibs., what must 

 be the effect on fry?" 



The CAMEL, in Cornwall, is in a comparatively 

 promising state. Mr. G. L. Ellis writes : 



