The Angler's Note-Book and Naturalist's Record, 1880: A Repertory of Fact, Inquiry and Discussion on Field-Sports and Subjects of Natural History (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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These local peculiarities of the who know nothing of and care less for 24 5 Vict., cap. 109, &c., were much better left, as of old, to the judgment of the local magistrates assembled at Quarter Sessions. It has been objected that if a rigid, open, and fixed season were not en forced, it might lead to collusion and unlimited poaching. My father, the late Jonathan Couch, suggested as a check that every salmon sent out of the county should be marked with a burnt Official stamp on tail, gill-cover, or dorsal fin, imitations Of which Should be punished as misdemeanour. These are, however, matters of controversy. Turn we now to a curious occurren'ce which is worth recording anent the Camel - a novelty in salmon conservation. For some time there had been but little rainfall, and a long run of fine frosty weather had ice-bound the stream, so that it became impossible for fish to face the formidable weir thrown up above by the Bodmin Waterworks Company, at any time difficult of ascent to fish gravid with roe. In the pool below this em bankment were imprisoned by low water and ice many salmon unable to proceed to their spawning-grounds, and to be the ready prey Of poachers and others when the ice gave way. The conservators and their clerk, assisted by many willing hands, made an Opening in the ice, and drew the pool, netting about 15 fish, varying in estimated weight from 9 lb. To 30 1b., mostly in fine condition. They were all ten derly put in washing trays on beds of fallen leaves in water, and carried to a deep lake, the Black Pool, above, where, without a single mishap, they scudded into the deep water and disappeared. This river is not nearly SO pro ductive asit once was, chiefly on account of the working of the Salmon Acts, which do not take into account the local peculiarities of the stream and its fish.

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