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more easily in the Bay of Fundy, and two cargoes can be 

 secured in the same time that one can be taken and market- 

 ed from Newfoundland, besides reaching their destination in 

 much better condition. A considerable number are salted 

 and smoked, and then put up in boxes of fifty or one hundred 

 each, and shipped to various points in the interior. 



The wholesale price of these fish is fifty cents per hundred, 

 and the probable "catch for the winter is estimated at 250,000 

 enough, according to Captain U. S. Treat, who is high au- 

 thority in such matters, to load one hundred sail of vessels. 

 AVhen taken to market, the price to dealers is about eighty 

 cents per hundred, that to consumers, of course, varying with 

 the supply. 



SHIPMENTS EASTWARD OF CALIFORNIA SALMON. 



According to a recent table, 2,712,972 pounds of salmon 

 were transported eastward over the Central and Union Pa- 

 cific railroads during the year 1872. 



IMPROVEMENT IN VALUE OF THE BRITISH SALMON FISHERIES. 



According to Mr. Spencer Walpole, the salmon fisheries of 

 England and Wales, which two years ago were valued at 

 from twenty to thirty thousand pounds sterling, are now 

 considered worth at least one hundred thousand pounds. 

 This is the legitimate result of the measures taken by the 

 British government, supplemented by private enterprise, in 

 protecting this noble fish from destruction, as well as of the 

 introduction into the waters of the young fish artificially 

 hatched. 2 A, Februar)/ 1^1813^95. 



FISHERY LAWS IN GERMANY. 



A committee of the German Parliament, in connection with 

 one from the Deutsche Fischerei-Verein, is engaged in prepar- 

 ing the draft for a new law of the empire, for the protection 

 of the fish and fisheries, more especially those of the inland 

 Avaters. Although the details have not yet been completed, 

 it has been decided that for the protection of the fish there 

 shall be both the so-called "close time" (or a period during 

 which no fishing is allowed), and also close ranges, or stretch- 

 es, which, as being specially occupied by breeding fish, shall 

 not be disturbed at all during at least two months of the year. 



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