4 TRANSACTIONS LIVERPOOL BIOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 
Both kinds of nets however are in use down the channel 
of the Dee from the point below Connah’s Quay above 
mentioned down to Dawpool Deeps and possibly further. 
Considerable friction exists between the different 
classes of fishermen on the Dee, viz. 
1. The riparian owners on the river from Bala Lake 
to Overton. These allege that there are now so many 
nets at work on the lower river that very few salmon can 
succeed in reaching the upper waters until so late in the 
Autumn that rod-fishing, which closes November 1st (net 
fishing ceases on September 1st), is almost over. 
2. The coracle fishers of Overton and the draught- 
netters of Chester. These say that the Connah’s Quay 
men with their trammels get nearly all the fish before 
they get into the narrow part of the river’ Both the 
Chester and Connah’s Quay men complain of not being 
allowed to use trammels for flat-fish during the close- 
time for salmon. 
As regards the riparian owners and rod fishermen of the 
upper Dee, it must be borne in mind that it is of the — 
most vital importance to all classes of fishermen that the 
spawning salmon should be protected on the shallows to 
which they resort and on which they would undoubtedly 
be taken by poachers were they not watched by the 
keepers of the gentlemen who preserve the fishing; and 
it seems hard to grudge these their sport (never very good 
in the Dee) which they expect in return. And it is clearly 
as much to the interest of the net fishermen of the lower 
Dee as to the sportsmen of the upper that a sufficient 
number of fish should reach the spawning beds, as on this 
depends the number of salmon that will re-ascend the 
river in future years. In order to enable more fish to run 
up and at the same time to check the killing of ‘ foul” 
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