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ova, and burying them in the gravel of running 

 water after the manner already nhown. 'i'he 

 .second method is by transferring to them j)arent 

 fi.-ih of both sexes, at the time of their commencini; 

 in their native rivers the operations of spawning. 

 The transferred fish must be plac^^d in a deep 

 pool of the new river, from which they will urA^tnd 

 and select appropriate spawning localities. 



The laws regulating the salmon-fisheries in 

 Scotland and Ireland do not require material 

 amendment. I'he chief one required is the limi- 

 tation of net-fishing, cruives, and so forth to the 

 20th Auf^ust. Anrrling, — I mean flv-fishin;/ for 

 salmon, — may be permitted for a month later. 

 The rivers of England and Wales, without any 

 exception, should be placed under the nearly 

 wholesome restrictions to which Piappily those of 

 Ireland and Scotland are subjected. 



I conclude these pages cheered by the hope 

 that they will lead to the propagation and pre- 

 servation of salmon on a far more extended, 

 liberal, and enlightened scale than hitherto — that 

 at a time when so much attention is directed to 

 waste land-f, they will cause it to be likewise 

 directed to waste waters, in which exint abundant 

 fertile elements of most valuable production, in 



