( 98 ) 



■\\'}iat wookl l>e most dobiruble, 

 been received : — 



the foUoAving 



ansAA'ers have 



One official (p. xv) observes that only large meshed 

 nets ought to be permitted in the hills during the breeding 

 season. \''illage officers, it is suggested (p. Ixxviii), should 

 be made responsible for the size of the meshes employed, or, 

 if regulaiions are merely to affect leased fisheries, the size 

 might be mserted in tlie contract (p. Ixxix). 



C. As to Avhether any difficulties exist as to prohi- 

 Proi.ibitiug tiio sale of fiv bitiuff tlic salc of the frv of fish 



fry 



biting the sale of the fry of 

 >" i"'^"'^- in the bazars. Eighteen answers 



from Panjab officials have been received. Seventeen see no 

 difficulties (jip. viii, ix, xi, xii, xiii, xiv, xv, xvii), but one 

 considers that persons might be permitted to sell small fish 

 betAveen April 15th and Llay 15th, also during the month of 

 Septembei- (p. xiii). A second that, although such might be 

 stopped A\ ithin municipal limits, elscAvhere a legal enactment 

 Avould hi: necessary (p. xvii). One gentleman (p. xviii) 

 considers such an interference A\dth fishermen Avhose tempers 

 might be. irritated so much that tliey might relinquish their 

 trade, ant( consequently the little fish would escape. In the 

 Bombay I'l-esidency, out of eight answers, six see no difficulty ; 

 one Avouhl rely upon regulating the size of the mesh of nets, 

 and one denounces such an idea as an arbitrary interference 

 with trade ! In ]\Tadras, such an order Avould cause conster- 

 nation iu the Vizagapatam Collectorate, whilst at Nag- 

 pxir, in the Central Provinces, the tehsildars are all unani- 

 mous in reporting that the sale of the fry of fish in the 



