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CHAPTER VL 



NON-LEGISLATIVE REMEDIES. 



Domestic Breeding and Re<aring — Fish, Flesh, and Fowl — Revolution in the 

 Fish Market — " Peace, Reform, and Retrenchment." 



Additional to all that has been clone, or may or 

 need be done, by the Legislature, are two vastly im- 

 portant means of increase and improvement, regarding 

 which the salmon-fishers can, if they choose, act as 

 their own legislators. These are — Better Nursing, and 

 Cheaper Fishing. 



In the application of one of these means, a good be- 

 ginning has already been made, and the whole of that sub- 

 ject, of which unluckily salmon does not form the great- 

 est part, is obtaining a large share of public attention 

 and favour. Of all the " movements," indeed, in this age 

 of movements, there are few more important than that 

 which has for its object the increase of the supply of 

 food by the propagation and better culture of fish. It 

 is amazing that the subject has so long lain in neglect, 

 especially as in ancient times, when such matters had 

 much less interest and importance, a good deal was 

 both known and done, the monks of old having laboured 

 to improve the breeds and increase the produce of fish, 

 as carefully and almost as successfully as is now done 



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