CHAPTER V. 
REMARKS ON THE ARTIFICIAL BREEDING OF SALMON 
IN NORWAY. 
Durine the last ten years, the attention of the Nor- 
wegian government has been directed towards the pro- 
pagation of salmon by artificial means. In a country 
like the Scandinavian peninsula, which has such an 
extent of sea-board, and which abounds in rivers large 
and small, running into fjords which intersect the coast, 
there-are so many natural facilities afforded for the 
protection of the young fish, that it only requires some 
additional attention on the part of the inhabitants 
themselves, to make Norway stand at the head of the 
salmon-producing countries of Europe. 
Fully alive to the disadvantages which many parts of 
the country labour under in an agricultural respect, 
owing to the rigour of winter and the unfertile nature* 
of the soil, the government, with a laudable generosity, 
* The whole area of Norway is about 121,800 square miles, out 
of which not more than 1,060 are under cultivation. 
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