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1863 the streams of Scotland prgduced salmon to the value 

 of £500,000, and the salmon caught that year in Ireland 

 were estimated at 300,000 pounds sterling.* 



We wUl cite one more instance touching this point, taken 

 from " The American Angler's Booh," by Norris (pp. 

 233-4) as follows : 



Loch Shin, a piece of water about twenty-one mUes by 

 fourteen, situated in the heart of the Sutherland Mountains, 

 is the immediate feeder of the River Shin, noted for its sal- 

 mon fecundity. The loch itself has four feeders, middling 

 sized rivers, viz : the Terry, Fiack, Gar vie, and Curry, in 

 which, previously to the year 1836, not a salmon was ever 

 seen, though many were in the habit of entering the loch or 

 lake. In the year mentioned, at the request of his Grace of 

 Sutherland and Mr. Loch, M. P., salmon were caught in 

 the river Shin, shortly before the spawning season, and con- 

 veyed to the four rivers above named, amongst which they 

 were distributed in due proportions. Mr. Young was the 

 managing director on the occasion. In the wonted season 

 all the fish spawned, each in its respective river. 



Now mark one of the consequences ; — salmon at present, 

 and ever since, come regularly to spawn, traversing the lake 

 to do so, in all these heretofore salmonless rivers. Nay, more, 

 the fish hatched in the Terry — at least those that survive long 

 enough — return to the Terry, and the young of the other 

 three rivers return from the sea to them, each grilse or sal- 

 mon entering never-failingly the stream that gave it birth. 

 What wonderful and unerring instinct ! " 



With these well established facts and figures before us, 

 we cannot longer question the expediency of making the at- 

 tempt to restock our streams with sea-fish. 



The salmon (salmo salar) has always been a favorite fish, 

 and brings the highest price of any fish in our markets. Its 

 habits are tolerably well known, and are similar ta those of 



* Buckland's Fisheries of Great Britain, 



