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their forays and found them to be full of smolts. As the smolts 



have so many enemies to 

 evade, too little attention 

 is paid to their protection. 

 Our young grouse would 

 fare badly if protected in 

 a similarly scanty manner. 

 In some rivers, trout-anglers 



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are prohibited from fishing 

 during the time of migration, 

 but during the remainder 

 of the season the parr are 

 slauo-htered in thousands. I 



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am certain that in the Tay 

 district at least one thousand 

 parr and smolts per day, from 

 April to September, find their 

 way into the angler's basket. 

 ^ This is a gross total of about 

 157,000 for six months, and 

 it four per cent found their 

 way back as salmon, the gain 

 would amount to 62 So. Now 

 this alone would be a gfood 

 yield for many rivers ; but 

 it we take into consideration 

 the ever - increasing number 

 destroyed by birds, the victims 

 of seals, coal-fish, pollution, 

 etc., we find that the destruc- 

 tion and loss are appalling. 

 Sooner or later those havino- 



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the power to rectify this matter will waken up, and at no distant date 

 our rivers will be teeming with salmon. The wheels of legislation 



