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15. It has also been suggested, that certain deep pools in which 

 . ~ , , . ,.,, . fish take shelter during the dry (not cold) 



A few ciGGP pools in hill streams «/ \ / 



it is proposed, should be selected months of the year should be protected in 

 and preserved during the dry the hills, as they are very easily netted there, 

 (not cold) months in the hill Mr Carleton proposes that certain streams 



should be considered preserves and kept for 

 the breeding of the fish. 



16. Trapping fish in irrigated fields ought to be most strictly 

 m . a , , . , , , , prohibited, at least during the monsoon 



1 rapping fish objected to, at l .. ; . ° „ . . 



least from April to November, months, as an immense amount of injury 

 Size of interstices should be the must occur by destroying all, both young and 

 same as m uets. ^ jf this mode of using fixed engines is 



to be permitted at all, the interstices between the materials of which 

 such traps is composed should be at least 1J inches, or that laid down 

 for the meshes of fishing nets, whilst they should be prohibited from 

 April to November. 



1 7. It has, in addition to the foregoing, been ' suggested in the 



„ . _ ' Sialkot district* (paragraph 28) that the 



Cashmere Government and /-, j_i»/-iiTii j 



those of Bilaspur and Sialkot Government of Cashmere be keenly urged 



to be requested to assist in pro- to carry out whatever system of preservation 



tecting valuable fish ascending [ s decided upon for India, as efforts in our 



their hilly streams to breed. • , ,i • • i <* i> j 



territory to preserve this main staple or food 

 must be considerably retarded without their support, because the affluents 

 of the large rivers up which the fish ascend to breed are out of our dis- 

 tricts. ' Mr. Carleton' also observes that the two States, Bilaspur and 

 Sialkot, remain without a single restraint as regards fishing. Those 

 States situated on the Sutlej occupy its finest fishing ground, and some 

 of the best, if not the very best, streams for fish breeding, and no hill 

 people are more addicted to fishing than those living within these two 

 territories. He continues : — " I have lived three seasons along the head 

 waters of the Ravi at Chumba, and five seasons along the head waters of 

 the Bias at Kulu, and traversed over the Sutlej valley for ten years as far 

 as Rampur, and nowhere have I seen such destruction of fish as in 

 those two States, especially Sialkot. * * Many of the people have 

 little close hand-nets, with which they regularly clean out the gorges of 

 young fry." 



18. Throughout the various portions of India which I have visited 



in investigating the fish and fisheries, in none 



tionr entPanJabfishinSreSUla " have such excellent rules been framed as in 



this province, embracing as they do protection 

 to the immature fish by prohibiting the use of nets having a mesh less 

 than 1| inches between each knot, disallowing the use of dams, weirs, 

 and stake-nets, and only permitting in the hill streams the employment 

 of such nets as can be held by or thrown from the hand. 



19. The further regulations which it is suggested by the ' Officiat- 



-c ,, , ing Secretary to the Paniab Government/ 



Further ones proposed. & ., ./ . , _«» „ „ „ . .' 



are, prohibiting the sale of the try of fishes in 



the bazars or mahaseer under lib. weight ; a close season during July 



and August ; the establishment of breeding tanks in connection with 



the irrigation canals, and by gratings or otherwise to prevent the fish 



going down these canals. 



