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need not be looked for in the river itself. The reduction of the 

 stock of fish is marked in the decline of grilse, and in the ratio 

 which exists between the number of grilse and the number of salmon. 

 If we are to strive for the preservation of more grilse, the question 

 is a large one, involving the fisheries outside the actual river, it may 

 be beyond the limits of the river district ; a question which has to 

 be gone into with regard to the whole of Scotland some day. 



