CHAPTER X 



BRITAINS BEYOND THE SEAS 



Canada Newfoundland British Columbia South Africa 

 Australasia. 



IN the very first letter I received in answer to my 

 inquiries about waters at home, there was a remark 

 that suggested the desirability of extending the 

 survey to rivers in Britains beyond the seas. 



* BLACK MOUNT, 



BRIDGE OF ORCHY, ARGYLLSHIRE, 

 nth October 1905. 



"Dear Mr. Earl Hodgson, ... Of course, it 

 seems to be a fairly well-established fact that all 

 salmon rivers are going down. Curiously enough, a 

 man told me the other day, in course of conversation, 

 that the rivers in Canada seemed to be going down 

 in the same way as our own at home. Whether this 

 is the case or not I cannot state. It seems to me 

 that the only way of preventing rivers deteriorating 

 and fish getting less is by reducing the netting. 

 How this is to be done without somebody putting 

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