194 SPORT IN NORWAY. 
has endeavoured to promote the propagation of fish by 
rendering pecuniary assistance, and by the appointment 
of officers to superintend in the management of the 
operation. 
I should think the subject might well engross the 
attention of those English who lease rivers in Norway 
for a term. By getting the several proprietors to 
co-operate with them, they might find it worth their 
while to set on foot hatching apparatuses near their 
waters. Of late years there have been several com- 
plaints as to the falling off of salmon; and though bad 
seasons may have had a great deal to do with this, yet 
there is no doubt but that poaching at unlawful times 
is carried on to a very great extent. This can only be 
remedied by persuading the proprietors not to poach 
themselves, and to take more care in the preservation 
of the fishing, and in the propagation of the fish. No 
doubt a difficult matter ! 
It is somewhat remarkable that the artificial pro- 
pagation of fish was first discovered in Norway by 
a simple labouring man in 1848. 
One harvest-time he had been obliged to keep at 
home on account of a bad leg. ‘To amuse himself he 
used to get down to the river-side, and watch the trout 
on their spawning-ground. Being of an observant 
nature, he was struck with the manner in which the 
operation was carried on. He remarked that the male 
