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state, and consequently most [?]
haul to the site and head back home
for food.-- [It?] [is?] [let?] some
of these pregnant fish may be killed
by the more ignorant. But it is not
the time when [?] [guardianship?]
is most needed in protection of the
fish is most [needed?], previous to their
immediate spawning time; say in the
months of August and September
where after escaping all the diffi[-]
culties they have to [continue?] in
their migration to the upper parts,
or spawning grounds of the rivers; they
congregate in pools; and then in these
narrow and circumscribed [limits?]
(waiting for the fullness of their time
to lay their eggs) become a prey
to the needly settler and avaricious
poacher and it is at this time
the most dreaded destruction of
salmon in the Rivers takes place,
and consequently it is the very time
when most protection is required
and where special [guardianship?]
should be applied.

I am Sir

Yours Obdlly

Sam Wilmot

Supt.