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think that a few fish will stock a river. I am quite satis- 

 fied in my mind that it will not. I do not know a river 

 in Ireland that is half-stocked with salmon fully to 

 develop its resources. 



2612 LORD LOVAT: Is spawn hurt by frost? If it 

 is exposed. I do not think that, unless it is quite bare, 

 it is hurt by frost. 



2624 LORD LOVAT : Could you take salmon up 30 or 

 35 feet by means of a ladder? You could, or any height. 



SALMON SPAWNING IN THE SEA MR JOSEPH JOHN- 

 STONE, MONTROSE. 



3439 LORD COLVILLE: Do you think that salmon 

 spawn in the sea? My faith in that has been very much 

 shaken. I have some doubts that they do spawn in the 

 sea. 



3440 You once thought so? I have some doubts now. 

 I did not believe at one time. I begin to think they do. 



3441 LORD STANLEY: Why do you think so? For 

 instance, I am tacksman of a small fishing near the 

 Tweed, that they call Marshall Meadows, within the 

 limits of the Tweed Act. It is on the march between 

 Scotland and England, and after the Act was passed last 

 year, I was very particular at the end of the year to 

 ascertain what fish there were. I had never seen them. 

 At the last day of the fishing I got a great many brown 

 salmon quite full of spawn. 



3442 Do you mean kelts? No; the fish full of spawn, 

 that you would think were ready to spawn; and I 

 ordered them to send them on to Montr^ose, that I might 

 see what they were like. I got some twenty or thirty 

 which were very full of spawn, very brown, and they 

 were fish close to spawning. 



3443 EARL INNES : Are you aware that the Tweed 

 was very dry till the close of the fishing season, and that 



