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15. It has also been suggested, that certain deep pools in which 

 . „ , ,.,.„, fish take shelter during the dry (not cold) 



A few ileopponlsiilliill slioams, , „ , l 1 l I . j„ I :., 



it is i.ro, Jo,i, sl.ouM be F-elooted months of the ycar should he jirotected in 



ami |ircscivod dining the dry the hills, as thoy arc very easily netted there, 



(not cold) months ill the hill ]\i,. Carlcton proposes that certain streams 



'''''™"''' should he considered preserves and kept for 

 the breeding of the fish. 



16. Trajipinff fish in irrigated fields ought to be most strictly 

 , , , . , , ^ 1 iirohihited, at least during the monsoon 



TininnnR fisli ohicrtcd to, nt ' ,, . l c ■ • 



least (Von. April to November, months, as an immense amount ot injury 

 Size of interstices should be the mustoccur by destroying all, both young and 

 same na in nets. p]j jf ti,js moAc of using fixed engines is 



to be permitted at all, the interstices between the materials of which 

 such traps is composed should be at least \\ inches, or that laid down 

 for the meshes of fishing nets, whilst they should be prohibited from 

 April to November. 



17. It has, in addition to the foregoing, been suggested in the 



'Sialkot district' (paragraph 28) that the 

 th.^'of ^m,a?pr™;;d1iart Government of Cashmere be keenly urged 

 to be requested to assist in pro- to carry out whatever system or preservation 

 tectinp valuable fisli ascending jg dccidcd upou for India, as cfForts in our 

 their hilly streams to breed. territory to preserve this main staple of food 



must be considerably retarded without their snjiport, because the aflluents 

 of the large rivers up which the fish ascend to breed are out of our dis- 

 tricts. ' Mr. Carleton' also observes that the two States, Bilaspur and 

 Sialkot, remain without a single restraint as regards fishing. Those 

 Slates situated on the Sutlej occupy its finest fishing ground, and some 

 of the best, if not the very best, streams for fish breeding, and no hill 

 people are more addicted to fishing than those living within these two 

 territories, lie continues : — " I have lived three seasons along the head 

 •waters of the Ravi at Chumba, and five seasons along the head waters of 

 the Bias at Kulu^ and traversed over the Sutlej valley for ten years as far 

 as Ram pur, and nowhere have I seen such destruction of fish as in 

 those two States, especially Sialkot. * * Many of flic people have 

 little close hand-nets, with which they regularly clean out the gorges of 

 young fry." 



18. Throughout the various portions of India which I have visited 



in investigating the fish and fisheries, in none 

 rrescnt Panjab fishing regula- j^^^^g g^gj, excellent rulcs been f rametl as in 



this province, embracing as thoy do protection 

 to the immature fish by prohibiting the use of nets having a mesh less 

 than 1 \ inches between each knot, disallowing the use of dams, weirs, 

 and stake-nets, and only permitting in the hill streams the employment 

 of such nets as can be held by or thrown from the hand. 



19. The further regulations which it is suggested by the ' OfRciat- 



ing Secretary to the Panjab Government,' 

 Further ones proposed. ^^.^^ prohibiting the Sale of the fry of fishes in 



the bazars or mahaseer under lib. weight; a close season during July 

 and August; tlie establishment of breeding tanks in connection with 

 the irrigation canals, and by gratings or otherwise to prevent the fish 

 going down these canals. 



