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old female, weighing on au average 5 jjounds. These salmon were 

 caught only with the view to get eggs for artificial hatching; if the sal- 

 mon fisheries at that time had not been closed for others on account of 

 the season of prohibition, they would, although somewhat hindered by 

 the high water, have yielded still better results. In the Danube, where 

 formerly there were no migratory salmon, the German Fishery Associa- 

 tion has, in the upper parts of the river, for some years plnnted fry of 

 Ehine and California salmon. The results of tluvse })lantings luive not 

 yet appeared. 



From this brief review it will be sufficiently e^■i<lent that the efforts 

 of the German Fishery Association liave not been in vain, but have, in 

 many instances, been crowned with remarkable success. In spite of 

 this. Professor Malmgren lhiul;s that the German Fishery Association 

 has lost the confidence of the Government, for, on p. 14 of his pamphlet, 

 he says: "It is a very noteworthy fact that the German Government, 

 which hitherto has specially favored the enterprises of the German 

 Fishery Association, and which very materially aided the Berlin Expo 

 sition of 1880, which had been planned by that association, last year 

 refused even the smallest appropriation to enable Germany to be rep- 

 resented at the International Fisheries Exhibition in London, in conse- 

 quence of which the association has been compelled to abandon its idea 

 of participating in that exhibition." 



Any one who can read between the lines will readily see that Professor 

 Malmgren thereby means to intimate that the German Fishery Associ- 

 ation, whose work had been in vain, had lost the confidence of the Ger- 

 man Government, as was shown by its refusal to grant an approjiri- 

 ation. Professor Malmgren may rest assured that the refusal of the 

 appropriation was not owing to this cause. Before the president of the 

 association madp the request of the Government he asked a number of 

 the members for. their opinion on the subject. I was also asked for my 

 opinion, and I do not hesitate to give once more the views expressed by 

 me at the time. I thought it my duty to call attention to the fact that 

 England, although occupying a very prominent ])osition among the 

 nations engaged in fisheries, refused to participate officially in the Ber 

 lin Exposition. Only a few firms engaged in the manufacture of fish- 

 ing tackle had made an exhibit, and besides these, if 1 remember right, 

 a few private individuals had exhibited a few insignificant articles. 

 Every visitor to the Berlin Exj)osition will remember the scantiness of 

 the English department. Even the Chinese had shown more sympathy 

 with our efforts than proud Britain, which looks with envy upon our 

 great national uprising, dating from 1871. After Germany had suf- 

 ficiently shown at the Berlin Exposition what it can do in the matter of 

 fisheries, and as we, after England's action in 1880, did not feel under 

 any special obligations towards that country, my opinion was that, un- 

 der the circumstances, it would be best for Germany not to be ofiicially 

 represented at the London Ex^iibition, all the more as a considerable 



