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people, and as such should be protected and looked to by 
the Government. He would ask the Home Office to recon- 
sider the matter, and not only because they had not taken 
the pollutions out of different rivers, but because they have 
failed in their duty by neglecting to propagate the fish in 
the rivers that were to receive them. He hoped that 
what had been said would not pass out of their minds, 
but would remain there until they had induced the 
Government to do their duty in the matter. 
Mr. MILNE HOME, in reply, said that if there had been 
nothing more than the opportunity which had been given 
to his friends from the United States and from Canada to 
give the explanations to which the meeting had been 
listening, the Conference had done good. He had been 
somewhat astonished when he read the circular referred 
to, because it was in contradiction to what he had read 
of the complete success of artificial fish culture, and he 
could not believe it possible that such statements were 
correct, but he felt it was not for him to bring the matter 
forward in a paper relating only to the fisheries of this 
country. They had had the pleasure of hearing from Mr. 
Wilmot and Professor Brown Goode that the statements 
were not to be credited, and he cordially agreed with 
the views which had been expressed as to the value of 
artificial hatching. They had in their own country a 
hatchery belonging to his friend Mr. James Maitland, 
which he had visited twice, and knew to be a success. 
There was one in Dumfriesshire, and there were two or 
three others, on a smaller scale. He hoped they would 
soon have more of those private establishments, but he 
also could not help thinking and saying that there ought 
to be some encouragement given to them by Government. 
If they were to appoint an inspector to visit those esta- 
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