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No salt is used in preserving these small fish, which are dried in 

 the sun on bamboo mats. The product is exported to other parts of 

 the Southern Shan States and possibly even further afield. 



Small prawns of the genus Caridina are captured and utilized pre- 

 cisely in the same manner as the small fish, and they form an even more 

 important article of local export. They will, however, be discussed 

 more appropriately when the Crustacea of the lake are described. 



Except for the licencing of different kinds of apparatus there is no 

 restriction^ placed on the fisheries of the Inle Lake, and I could discover 

 no facts that would justify any such restriction at present. The lake, 

 however, is bound to become gradually smaller and shallower, and the 

 fish to become scarcer as the area available for them is restricted. When 

 this occurs the only, course will be to experiment in the intensive culture 

 of the Carp and of the small fish used in making dried whitebait. There 

 is every reason to hope that experiments of the kind would be success- 

 ful. 



^ Some of the Intha think it wrong to fish in tlie " Buddhist Lent," in summer and 

 autumn, but this is not the breeding-season of the fish and no legal restriction or strong 

 religious influence is exerted in the matter. 



