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salar that will never be unriddled. The marking 

 this year was omitted. 



The same remarks with regard to the takes of 

 marked fish of former seasons may be applied to 

 this. No marked grilse could be looked for, but 

 we heard of several salmon of former markings 

 having been captured, both with net and rod, 

 though not officially reported to the superinten- 

 dent. Few, if any, of the fishermen have any doubt 

 about the matter when they capture a pond fish, 

 but they will not take the trouble to report; and 

 until that is done in every case, no correct data 

 can be formed of what the experiment has done 

 and is accomplishing in increasing the number of 

 salmon in the Tay. The matter, we think, rests 

 with the proprietors of the fishings themselves, 

 who, on letting their fishings, could bind down 

 the tacksmen, so that their men would be obliged 

 to report on all pond fish taken. Without some- 

 thing be done towards arriving at more than 

 a mere guess, it is next to useless going on 

 marking the smoults. 



We have now described the experiment as it 

 proceeded, up to the present time. The hatching 

 boxes have again been re-stocked for this year, 

 1862; but, from the flooded state of the Tay 



