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reputation ; more especially as the Canadian Minister at 
the head of the Fisheries Department, and himself, were 
here on behalf of that country advocating the importance 
of fish-cultural operations in the Dominion, the practical 
display of which, at this great International Fisheries 
Exhibition, had gained for itself great popular favour, and 
also materially aided in the general exhibit, and placed 
Canada amongst the foremost of the nations for efficiency 
and completeness in the science of artificially propagating 
fish. From the gratifying way in which Professor Goode’s 
remarks and his own had been received on this subject, 
it was clearly unnecessary to refer further to this “under 
the belt” stab in the circular, feeling assured that similar 
conduct is always frowned down by the manly English 
public. 
Mr. C. E. FRYER (Home Office) said if the Exhibition 
fulfilled no other object than that of making people think, 
it would have achieved a great work. They had just 
received a great deal of information about the manner in 
which fish culture was carried on in the United States and 
in Canada, and as to the beneficial results derived from 
the artificial culture of salmon, and he would just say a few 
words to show the benefits which had resulted from the 
protection of salmon in this country even without artificial 
hatching. In 1863 the value of the salmon rivers in 
England and Wales was about £18,000; at the present 
time the value of the same rivers was somewhere about 
£150,000. That increase, large as it was, by no means 
represented the possibilities of English rivers, if they were 
purified and greater facilities given for the access of salmon 
into the upper waters to spawn. This had already been 
done to a certain extent; and, in addition, restrictions had 
been placed on the power of man to catch the salmon in 
