A View of the Present State of the Salmon and Channel-fisheries: And of the Statute Laws by which They are Regulated ... Comprehending Also the Natural History and Habits of the Salmon ... Together with the Form of a New Act, Designed to Remedy the Evils So Generally Complained Of; and an Abstract of the Evidence Before the Committee of the House of Commons Upon the Subject, with Notes |
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... spawn in the sand or gravel , about eighteen inches deep , which they afterwards cover up ; and having performed this duty , they hasten back to the sea , being now very poor and lean . The spawn continues buried till the spring . About ...
... spawn in the sand or gravel , about eighteen inches deep , which they afterwards cover up ; and having performed this duty , they hasten back to the sea , being now very poor and lean . The spawn continues buried till the spring . About ...
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... spawn more than once . Supposing that Nature is alike every where , I draw my inferences from the river Dart . Shaw says , that salmon , like swallows , visit the selfsame spot every season , as has been ascertained by the experi- ment ...
... spawn more than once . Supposing that Nature is alike every where , I draw my inferences from the river Dart . Shaw says , that salmon , like swallows , visit the selfsame spot every season , as has been ascertained by the experi- ment ...
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... spawn , and they know it at the least as well as we do . If , therefore , they are thus thwarted in complying with the dictates of instinct , which never misleads or deceives , it is most reasonable , if not conclusive , to infer , that ...
... spawn , and they know it at the least as well as we do . If , therefore , they are thus thwarted in complying with the dictates of instinct , which never misleads or deceives , it is most reasonable , if not conclusive , to infer , that ...
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... spawn , drive them into traps , where they are caught and killed . They are obeying a resist- less necessity in hunting for an aperture to get up the streams , and are thus forced into the fish- locks . The situation of the spent fish ...
... spawn , drive them into traps , where they are caught and killed . They are obeying a resist- less necessity in hunting for an aperture to get up the streams , and are thus forced into the fish- locks . The situation of the spent fish ...
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... spawn where they could . The whole proved abortive ; for , as those sand - beds were dry at low water , and the sand shifted with the tides and the floods , the pea were uncovered and lay so thick upon the surface , that a man could not ...
... spawn where they could . The whole proved abortive ; for , as those sand - beds were dry at low water , and the sand shifted with the tides and the floods , the pea were uncovered and lay so thick upon the surface , that a man could not ...
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