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what would be most desirable, the following answers have 

 been received : — 



One official (p. xv) observes that only large meshed 

 nets ought to be permitted in the hills during the breeding 

 season. Village officers, it is suggested (p. lxxviii), should 

 be made responsible for the size of the meshes employed, or, 

 if regulations are merely to affect leased fisheries, the size 

 might be inserted in the contract (p. lxxix). 



C. As to whether any difficulties exist as to prohi- 

 Probibiting the sale of fry biting the sale of the fry of fish 

 in bazars. i n the bazars. Eighteen answers 



from Panjab officials have been received. Seventeen see no 

 difficulties (pp. viii, ix, xi, xii, xiii, xiv, xv, xvii), but one 

 considers that persons might be permitted to sell small fish 

 between April 15th and May 15th, also during the month of 

 September (p. xiii). A second that, although such might be 

 stopped within municipal limits, elsewhere a legal enactment 

 would be necessary (p. xvii). One gentleman (p. xviii) 

 considers such an interference with fishermen whose tempers 

 might be irritated so much that they might relinquish their 

 trade, and consequently the little fish would escape. In the 

 Bombay Presidency, out of eight answers, six see no difficulty ; 

 one would rely upon regulating the size of the mesh of nets, 

 and one denounces such an idea as an arbitrary interference 

 with trade ! In Madras, such an order would cause conster- 

 nation in the Vizagapatam Collectorate, whilst at Nag- 

 pur, in the Central Provinces, the tehsildars are all unani- 

 mous in reporting that the sale of the fry of fish in the 



