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where water-weeds abound. The cause of the 

 migratory salmon and salmonoids, the true salmon 

 and the bull-trout, may be said to have been prac- 

 tically won since Buckland first spoke in their defence ; 

 and the question of the hour is not whether salmon 

 shall be protected or neglected, but whether the 

 salmon-fishery is of sufficient value to cover the cost 

 of rescuing rivers from pollution by factories. " Ob- 

 structions " such as mills and weirs were the obstacles 

 to whose removal or remedy Buckland more immedi- 

 ately addressed his attention. His casts of salmon 

 smashed by mill-wheels, of spawning salmon seized 

 at Billingsgate, with wounds made by poachers' gaffs 

 and hooks, his models of salmon-ladders, and pro- 

 tective grating and guards for mill-heads and water- 

 wheels, at South Kensington, are reminders of the 

 danger of neglect in this direction ; and his cast 

 of the yo-lb. Tay salmon is left as a perpetual 

 record of the return which a protected fishery may 

 make. 



Beautiful as the salmon are, they hardly come within 

 the scope of practical fish-culture, except for the export 

 of the eggs to the Colonies. The number of salmon- 

 rivers is limited, and cannot well be increased. More- 

 over, the supply of foreign salmon is so large that the 

 increase of the English stock could hardly affect the 

 price. But trout, which can be reared in every one of 

 the home and southern counties, are far rarer than 

 salmon. They are hardly obtainable at the greater 

 number of London fishmongers. Grilled trout makes 



