Salmon once teemed in all the larger rivers of the Auvergne. In the early nineteenth century wealthy British anglers found it worth their while to travel all the way to the river Truyère, which flows into the Lot at Entraygues, in search of good salmon fishing. Salmon disappeared from the upper Lot in about 1860, when weirs were built on the river. The only Auvergne river where the fish is found today is the Allier.

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