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salmon and sea-trout. The Board spare no effort, 

 within the measure of their funds, to improve the 

 fisheries. Much more might be done, however, if a 

 larger expenditure were possible. Public interest in 

 the fishing steadily increases, and legislative provi- 

 sions to protect streams from injury by pollution or 

 otherwise are well supported."" 



The EDEN for two or three miles above and below 

 Carlisle has been poor for a good many years. Mr. 

 H. H. Hodgkinson, Honorary Secretary of the 

 Angling Association, writes : 



" In the spring hardly any salmon have been taken 

 by the rod. This is a result of continuous netting 

 in the lower reaches and the estuary. In the waters 

 immediately above those leased by the Carlisle 

 Angling Association and up to Armathwaite, sport 

 has been improving for a few seasons. Especially 

 from Crosby to Armathwaite, fish are more plentiful. 

 One rod killed forty-five salmon, nearly all in the 

 same pool, in the spring of 1904. For thirteen 

 seasons autumn fishing in the lower waters near 

 Carlisle has been rather poor. Before that time you 

 could see all anglers with fish, some having three or 

 four in a day. In the upper reaches, save after a 

 good flood, there are only a few salmon caught. 

 Above Warwick Hall fish were plentiful last season, 

 but not many were taken. Over the river generally 

 the stock, I think, has not declined; but the fish 

 seem to change their haunts." 



The COQUET, in Northumberland, is not un- 

 prosperous. Mr. John James Hardy, who has 



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