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least ten in order that the purchaser should develop the 

 fishery and not work it for all that is in it. 



Not only people in the shore towns but all the fisher- 

 men along the coast and the entire body of consumers are 

 interested in the alewife fishery and in the consideration 

 of a question which is not merely confined to the coastal 

 streams and the shore towns, but extends to the entire 

 fisheries of the State and even far beyond to the interests 

 of the fisheries of the nation. 



