L[nternateonal Lishertes Fixhibitron. 
LONDON, 1883. 
CONFERENCE ON WEDNESDAY, JULY 18, 1883. 
H1s Excellency M. DE FALBE took the chair, when the 
following paper was read by Mr. HOWITZ on 
FORTS EF’ PROTECTION AND TRE Cur 
TURE ON WATER FRONT AGES 
WITH THE VIEW OF PROVIDINGA 
CONSTANT AND STEADY SURE 
OF WATER FOOD. SHADE? i 2nns 
SHELTER POR FRESHWATER ISEe 
THE questions of pisciculture, its protection, and the pro- 
tection of fisheries have been already discussed by so many 
able and learned gentlemen, that I should not have ven- 
tured to come forward if there had not presented itself to 
my mind a question in which I, as a professional forester, 
have a great interest, and one which I feel is of much 
importance to the success of pisciculture and to all fresh- 
water fishing. 
The value of the question which I have the honour to bring 
before you may not at first appear so great as it really is, 
but, while endeavouring to enlist your sympathies, I do so in 
the sincere hope that by the introduction of it at this 
Conference it may become a question of interest to all and 
a special subject for future legislation. It is the question 
of the protection, proper management, and cultivation of 
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