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ground (as ova and embryos, &c.,) in to the shallow bays 

 and "nurseries" (as immature fish) and then out again 

 (as adult or mature fish) to the offshore banks. From this 

 it follows that we have not really command of the fish pop- 

 ulation of a particular bay, or coast, unless we also have 

 control of the off-shore waters to which the spawning fish 

 from our bay migrate. It is possible that trawling outside 

 amongst the spawning fish may do great damage to that 

 fishery in the district. If it is impossible to restrict the 

 off-shore trawling during the spawning season, at least 

 perfectly mature fish on the point of spawning might be 

 "stripped" and the ova artificially fertilized and either 

 returned to the sea or conveyed to a Hatchery. 



Need of a Sea-Fish Hatchery. 

 Complaints as to the gradual falling off of the more 

 valuable sea fisheries come from various parts of the coast 

 and also from other European countries ; and the trawling 

 statistics of the ' Garland ' in the territorial waters, where 

 the Fishery Board for Scotland has absolutely prohibited 

 beam-trawling for some time back, show that little or no 

 increase of fiat fishes in that district has taken place. So 

 they have now come to the conclusion in Scotland which 

 had been arrived at previously in some other countries 

 that the only thing that will enable a fishery to recover 

 when once it has been over worked is artificial propagation, 

 and rearing. Sea-Fish Hatching establishments have now 

 been erected in the United States, Canada, Newfoundland, 

 Norway, France, Italy, Denmark, and other countries, 

 in all cases with satisfactory results. In the United 

 States they consider the important Shad fishery to have 

 been revived and greatly improved as a result of artificial 

 cultivation. In Norway they hatch at Flodevig near 

 Arendal hundreds of millions of young Cod annually. In 



