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Romsey and the tidal waters, the natural run of the salmon 

 may be considered to cease at or below Mottisf ont ; but there is 

 always a danger that if the number of salmon increases in 

 anything like the quantity which is possible, the breeding fish 

 will be continually pushed higher and higher up the stream 

 in search of spawning-ground, much to the injury of the trout 

 fisherman. Nature in some rivers imposes barriers which most 

 effectually control the ascent of salmon, but as long as no 

 obstacles exist the salmon will run up. The running upward 

 of salmon when spawning is no idle fancy, and is a direct 

 danger to the trout stream. 



When the hen fish has selected her spawning-ground and 

 decided on the place for her redd, she is so far as my experi- 

 ence goes but rarely disturbed. Other female fish pass her 

 and seek beds higher up the water (which is the danger the 

 trout fisherman fears) ; the cock fish in his turn, if able to do 

 so, drives other cock fish up-stream, or is driven himself away ; 

 and when his duties with one hen fish are finished, unless 

 utterly spent, he proceeds, generally above the scene of his 

 late duties, to fertilize the ova of other hen fish. 



It is only natural to suppose that each cock fish requires at 

 least one little place that he can call a redd, and one mate 

 whose company he wishes to monopolize, and therefore during 

 the spawning operations there is no room in his immediate 

 vicinity for other breeding fish of his own sex. Hence the 

 continued ascent of salmon into the upper and more remote 

 waters of the trout stream. It is this danger a very real 

 one which naturally alarms those who regard the classical 

 reputation of these beautiful and famous trout streams, and 

 the inviolate sanctity of these rivers as trout streams, an 

 inalienable right and privilege of incomparable value. 



The salmon fisherman very naturally wishes to see the 

 threatened ruin of his sport prevented. The trout fisherman, 

 with equally natural desires, wishes to avoid the threatened 

 danger to his trout streams. 



If it were possible to form a combination of interests and to 



