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of mustard seed. In a salmon weighing sixteen 

 pounds, caught in the Tay, in January, 1825, the 

 roe weighed four pounds ; and the ova, of the size of 

 large peas, amounted to 18,130. This roe was, how- 

 ever, considered to be unusually large. In September 

 salmon begin to ascend towards the higher parts of 

 rivers for the purpose of spawning ; and they spawn 

 in November, December, January, and February. 

 Frosty weather is said to facilitate their spawning, 

 which, in the Tweed, as will be seen from the fol- 

 lowing statement, is in some seasons not completed 

 by the tenth of March. Mr. Walter Jamieson, 

 renter of a fishery on the Tweed, extending from 

 Hempside ford below Kelso, to Craigs near Ma- 

 kerston, in a communication to a committee of the 

 House of Commons on the Salmon Fisheries, gives 

 the following statement of the unspawned fish, 

 kelts or fish that have spawned, and clean, that is, 

 fresh-run, sound, and wholesome, fish taken by 

 him from the 1st of January to the 10th of March, 

 1825. 



From the 1st of January to the 1st of February. 



Unspawned fish 120 



Kelts, none 



Clean 1 



121 



From the 1st of February to the 1st of March. 



Unspawned fish 25 



Kelts 15 



Clean 4 



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