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the best fish those waters could produce, they ought to be 
confined to them; at any rate, if large sums of money 
were spent, either by private individuals or the public, in 
introducing new fish and in improving the fisheries of the 
water, there ought to be some means by which ill-natured 
persons could be prevented turning in rapacious fish, and 
thus in a short time undoing the work of years. Either 
the Local Fisheries Board or the Home Office should have 
some authority or power to say what fish should be turned 
into the waters, and he hoped that some regulation of this 
sort would be one of the useful results which would follow 
from the Conference. 
Professor G. BROWN GOODE (U.S. Commissioner) said 
said he should be pleased to give a few figures illustrating 
what fish culture could do. Professor Baird (U.S. Com- 
missioner) informed him that the Sacramento River, Cali- 
fornia, was, owing to the large number of canneries there, 
to a large extent depleted of its Salmon; but by the 
establishment of a hatchery there he had turned out some- 
thing like sixty-seven millions of eggs or young fry of the 
Californian Salmon in the past eight or nine years, one- 
fourth of‘ which were put into the Sacramento River, and 
it was now much more productive than ever before. On 
the Clacamass, in Oregon, a similar experiment was tried 
some years ago with a like result. These experiments had 
clearly shown that the Salmon industry of the Pacific 
Coast, which was now producing fish to the value of some- 
thing like three million dollars a day, was thoroughly under 
the control of fish culture. He might also take the case of 
the Connecticut, in the last century, which was one of the 
most productive rivers ; but by the construction of a great 
dam, 60 miles above its mouth, the Salmon were cut off 
from the spawning ground, and for very nearly ninety 
