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of the river under their protection ; and as netting is now 

 abolished in these waters, should salmon ever be brought 

 back to the river, this twenty miles of freedom from nets 

 will be an invaluable safeguard to the fishery. 



VIII. 



SALMON- STAIKS. 



I HAVE spoken of salmon-stairs. These are certain ap- 

 pliances adapted to falls or weirs, for the purpose of 

 breaking one large fall into a number of small ones, and 

 so giving the ascending fish an opportunity of breaking 





the journey up it. When the fall is tolerably light and 

 not perpendicular, as over weirs for example, the task is 

 easy. A large trough is fitted to the weir, the part being 



