66 MAKING A FISHERY 



prietors and lessees of fisheries, but, in time, the 

 continual fouling of the water with the mud 

 deposited during the gradual decomposition of 

 the floating weeds would be diminished and one 

 cause of river pollution removed. 



In the case of a fishery where the details of 

 management were somewhat under my own 

 control, it was decided by the lessees that, what- 

 ever might be the legal aspect of the question, 

 and however great the expense, all cut weeds 

 should be removed from the river, and not sent 

 drifting down to our neighbours with a view of 

 shifting on 'to their shoulders responsibilities 

 which certainly morally, and probably legally, 

 should devolve upon us. This having been 

 decided, the next step was to make arrange- 

 ments for their disposal on land adjoining the 

 stream. Inquiry among the farmers elicited the 

 fact that no one of them would go to the 

 expense of pulling out the weeds in considera- 

 tion of the benefit to accrue from their use as 

 manure. In the entire length of the water only 

 one tenant cared to carry them at his own 

 expense from the banks after we had deposited 

 them there, and use them in his garden. A 

 portion of the cut weeds was accordingly 

 landed on the bank close to his garden, and 

 this he carried away. 



Permission was obtained to heap up the 



