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ties definite steps are already being taken to form small stations of 

 this kind ; and as this Association and its Laboratory are naturally 

 looked to as being an institution founded on a broad and sound basis, 

 proposals have been made in one or two instances to place such small 

 hatcheries under our supervision. Everyone knows what has been 

 accomplished by the hatching and rearing of salmon and trout in our 

 rivers, and now that the hatching of sea fish is making such strides, 

 it is but natural that the attempt should be made to benefit our 

 sea fisheries in a like manner. Norway, the United States of 

 America, and Newfoundland have set us the example ; and as the 

 success attained becomes known in this country our fishermen 

 may learn to believe that, as the agriculturist cannot expect to 

 reap a harvest on ground where no seed has been sown, neither 

 can he, considering the immense increase of fishing craft within 

 recent years, expect the same fishing grounds continually to yield 

 abundance. At present, when one district ceases to yield a remune- 

 rative return, the only idea present to the mind of the fisherman is 

 to find out some new or little fished ground. But now, in the case 

 at least of Great Britain, the limit to this method has been fairly 

 well reached, and we must look to the preservation of spawning fish 

 and the protection of the young, in order to keep up the balance of 

 nature. 



Amongst the Notes and Memoranda will be found a few extracts 

 from a recently published Newfoundland Report showing what is 

 being done in that country. 



W. L. Calderwood. 



