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SALMON POACHING BY WHOLESALE Some , of. the, English soldiers, home from France HrV making forays oh the protected fish- in the salmon streams of the .English-Scottish border, especially the Tweeds A correspondent of . the Anglers .News of London. writes, that there have been great numbers of salmon" in the Tweed, but poaching is rife. Over 300 salmon were taken from the Ettrick by twenty rods within twenty-four hours in November by means df "sniggling." The restrictions are partly the cause of .so much , poaching for. salmon, but there is no trout netting to speak -of.. . The" Edinburgh Evening News declares: "We learn of amazing scenes, on the Tweedside, where, and in other parts ,of the borders, poaching has been carried on to extraordinary lengths this winter. Many thousands of salmon, are said to have been caught by illegal means. At one cauld, where salmon were attempting to ascend -the barricade, about a -dozen soldiers- and-discharged soldiers "cleeked the fish. One man was pulled in after cleeking a huge salmon. . but was rescued by his companions, salnojj. wh.ich; broke, away with the cleek and stick in his, back- is estimated to have weighed over fifty pounds. Over forty . salmon -were killed in two hours. One. discharged man had fifteen. He AH-.aid-4o have -sold eleven of them at sixteen cents per pound, and given four away. After dark the poaehing was carried out by lamplight There lias bpen further - poaching in the Ettrick and other Mredins connected with the Tweed. The water baliffs, who are outnumbered, in some instances have been absolutely defied by the poachers.
