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runs of former years is to seed the spawning beds as abun- 

 dantly as they were formerly seeded. 



The spawning area of the Fraser requires no expenditure 

 of money to bring it into bearing. If permitted to reach the 

 beds in sufficient numbers, the fish will seed them, the young 

 will feed themselves, and furnish their own transportation to 

 and from their feeding grounds in the open sea. If permitted 

 to do so, the fish will do all the work necessary to produce a 

 catch worth thirty million dollars a year. All that is neces- 

 sary is for the Governments of Canada and the United States 

 to adopt measures which will afford a free passage through 

 their waters to a sufficient number of sockeyes to seed the 

 spawning beds. The runs of sockeyes to the Fraser River 

 system cannot be restored in any other way. 



