OPENING ADDRESS: 
THE FISHERIES OF FLINTSHIRE AND 
DENBIGHSHIRE. 
By ALFRED O. Waker, F.L.S., President. 
[Read October 14th, 1892.] 
THE Report I propose to submit will deal principally with 
Fish in the proper sense of the word, with a few remarks 
on the so-called ‘“‘fisheries”’ of Crustacea (Lobsters, 
Crabs, Shrimps and Prawns) and Mollusca (Mussels, 
Cockles, &c.). The area of which I propose to treat will 
comprise the River Dee and the coast to the westward as 
far as the Conway, including the rivers falling into the sea 
on that coast. 
FRESH WATER FISHERIES. 
First in importance among these fisheries is that of the 
Salmon, under which head will be included Salmo salar 
and Salmo trutta or Sea Trout, Salmon Trout, Buntling, 
Fork-tail, and Sewin—all of which I follow the late Mr. 
Day in referring to S. trutta. Beginning with the Dee, 
the highest part of the river where the fishing is carried 
on as a means of earning a livelihood is in the neighbour- 
hood of Bangor Iscoed, and Overton. Higher up, the 
river is too shallow and rocky for the use of nets, and 
rod-fishing, which as a rule may be considered merely as 
a sport, is the only method of taking salmon. In the 
above named locality however it is fished for probably in 
much the same way as it was in the time of the Romans, 
