630 REPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF FISH AND FISHERIES. 



law, and in supervising all measures for furthering the industry, the 

 district authorities shall, if necessary, be assisted by inspectors of fish- 

 eries. The relation of these inspectors to the superior and subordinate 

 officers is regulated by ordinances of the government. (1j 43.) 



Eegarding the inspectors of fisheries, the preliminary report says : 



"The appointment of inspectors of fisheries as-competent counselors 

 of the supervising officers has long since been recognized as an undis- 

 puted want, and becomes indispensable when all those measures are to 

 be executed by which the sea and inland fisheries are to be promoted. 

 It need scarcely be said that it is not intended to appoint at once an 

 inspector of fisheries for every province; their number will, on the 

 contrary, be at first a limited one, and will be increased as time and 

 occasion demand." 



The second draught does not contain the above paragraph ; but the 

 preliminary report says expressly that the appointment of commis- 

 sioners in chief as counselors to the principal supervising authorities, 

 and as their referees in all matters pertaining to fisheries, will in all 

 probability become necessary, but that their number will have to be as 

 limited as possible. It seems, therefore, to be the intention to regulate 

 this whole matter by some future ordinance. 



Whenever the general German penal code does not provide for (flfl 

 29G and 370) violations of the fishing-law, the punishment inflicted will 

 be by fines of $7.50, $22.50, and $37.50, or with imprisonment. 



Any person who violates the law through his servants, apprentices, 

 or day-laborers is, besides being punished himself, made responsible for 

 the payment of fines imposed on these assistants in case they are not 

 able to pay them. (f[ 47.) 



Bavaria. — In Bavaria, the government, in 1854, recommended that 

 artificial fish-culture should, with the assistance of the agricultural 

 society, be introduced as far as possible, and that, through it, natural 

 propagation should be carried out by placing spawn of the finer species 

 in the rivers. 



By giving information and encouragement, the authorities should aim 

 at having smaller fisheries combined, and see to it that they are leased 

 as a whole for a longer period to enterprising fishermen, on condition of 

 their being carried on in a rational manner. The several villages and 

 towns should be urged to do the same with those under their control. 



The police-authorities were ordered to afford the greatest possible 

 X)rotection to fish-culture; to remedy existing evils as soon as possible; 

 and, wherever practicable, to fix the amount of the fines. 



In 1S55, the fishing and fish-market regulations, which were partly 

 revised and partly new, were promulgated throughout the kingdom. 



Violations of the fishing-law were spoken of in article 231 of the 

 penal code. 



The example of the neighboring states will soon prompt Bavaria to 

 reform her antiquated regulations, which will also exercise a beneficial 



