298 DOMESTICATED TROUT. 



enrich the river, and all the salmon, when manipulated, 

 were to be restored to it, this summary confiscation of the 

 nets and release of the fish seemed to be hasty action, to 

 say the least, on the part of the fishery wardens, who 



Mirimichi or its branches, when and after they shall obtain 

 the sufficient and ordinary growth of salmon fry. And the other 

 half >hall, when hatched out, be your property. 



4. That you shall be entitled to obtain from this department 

 permission to procure fish-spawn for the sole purpose of furnish- 

 ing impregnated eggs for hatching in the said establishment, 

 such permission to be accorded for the times, places, and nieaiis 

 of so taking salmon fixed in writing by the inspector of fisheries 

 for Nova Scotia and New Brunswick, and subject to uses only 

 under the immediate surveillance of a fishery officer or fishing 

 warden, who shall be empowered to stop all proceedings under 

 the said written permit the moment he finds the liberty it allows 

 subject to abuse or injurious to the salmon fisheries, or any of 

 these conditions evaded or violated. 



5. The numbers and condition of salmon caught and manipu- 

 lated, which are to be returned alive and uninjured to the stream 

 with the dates of capture, manipulation, and release, together 

 with the numbers of eggs obtained therefrom, and actually de- 

 posited, and also the numbers vivified, and afterwards hatched, 

 and the numbers of young fish let into the river, to be attested 

 on oath, by one or more of the persons engaged in the estab- 

 lishment. 



6. That any fishery officer or warden shall at any and all 

 times have free access to the premises. 



7. That no eggs or fry shall be removed from the ponds, 

 boxes, hatching-beds, or elsewhere, without the knowledge and 

 consent of the local fishery officer, and the partition or releasing 

 of young fish to fulfil the crown share shall be made in the pres- 

 ence of and certified by a fishery officer authorized thereto. 



8. That until you have prepared the establishment to the sat- 

 isfaction of the inspector of fisheries, no permit shall be delivered 

 to you. 



9. Any violation or evasion of these conditions shall forthwith 



