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rocky channel on the left bank which could be opened up and deepened, at no 
great expense, so as to let the salmon up. The third fall would only require 
to have a resting-pool hollowed out about the centre of the fall. At the fourth 
fall a channel on the right bank, behind a kind of grassy island, would have 
to be deepened, widened, and made more easy in gradient. The crest of the 
fifth fall would require to be blasted, and a resting-pool constructed. The 
sixth fall is more a rapid than a fall, and would scarcely stop fish when the 
river was in such a state as to induce them to run. Still, the opening up of 
these six obstructions, taken together, in the course of a small stream about 
2 miles long would cost the four or five proprietors on Loch Avich a consider- 
able sum of money, though, at the same time, it would greatly enhance the 
value and attractions of the river and loch from a piscatorial point of view. 
In this, as in most other cases of the same kind, the claims of the 
Crown to the salmon fishings which would be created by opening up the 
obstructions in the Eiver Avich, and so salmonising the whole expanse 
of Loch Avich, form the chief obstacle to any attempts being made by 
the riparian owners to render them passable. It is understood that Mr 
Fraser, of the Loch Awe and Dalmally Hotels, who is one of the pro- 
prietors on Loch Avich, would be willing to attempt to make the falls on 
the Avich accessible for salmon, provided he could obtain a title to 
salmon fishings in Loch Avich. 
I have the honour to be 
Your obedient Servant, 
ARCHD. YOUNG. 
25th March 1891. 
The Fishery Board for Scotland. 
