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cases, will as a general rule be found willing 

 to extend a helping hand to maintain law 

 and order when occasion arises. They are 

 not bound to originate plans of campaign 

 against poachers, but ought to act when 

 flagrant cases come under their notice. 

 The Fishmongers Company of 'London. -No other 

 organisation has done so much to conserve our Scottish 

 salmon fisheries. In general, but specially in cases 

 where there is no District Fishery Board, the Company 

 or its local solicitor, being "any person " in the sense 

 of the Acts, will prosecute offenders. It is requested 

 that information as to offenders may be sent in con- 

 fidence to the Clerk, Mr. J. Wrench Towse, 24 

 Charlotte Square, Edinburgh, or Fishmongers Hall, 

 London. 



II. TROUT 



Legal Definition 



In the latest statute the legal expression used is 

 " the common trout, salmo fario " (1902 Act, Section i ), 

 but the definition has been held to include Loch Leven 

 trout, salmo levenensis, in a Sheriff Court case. 



Public and Private Rights 



i. The Public. There is no public right of trout- 

 fishing in Scotland, except in navigable rivers so far 

 up only as the tide ebbs and flows, and in those few 



