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as we can, and we will pass judicious laws to aid the prod- 

 uce of the fish as much as we can, and to assist those 

 engaged in the artificial method as well, because it is now 

 necessary to supplement the natural mode, which has been so 

 seriously interfered with that they cannot produce as numerously 

 as they ought to supply the immense increase of population in 

 this country. We haye to resort to artifice to prevent their 

 being reduced in numbers. 



Let me say here that the remarks which fell from my 

 esteemed friend, Prof. Milner, I cannot fully indorse. He says 

 that the Dominion of Canada is better able to protect its 

 fisheries than the United States. If I recollect rightly, Canada 

 has a population of three or four millions, and the State of New 

 York alone has a population even greater than that, and the 

 population of the whole United States put together is not far 

 from fifty millions. You will see that if the Dominion of 

 Canada, covering as much territory as the United States, 

 extending from the Pacific Ocean to the Atlantic, can, with its 

 small means, have judicious laws and officers, and pay them for 

 the preservation of their fish, the United States, with its 

 immense population and wealth, surely can follow in the same 

 footsteps, and endeavor to preserve their fish in the same 

 manner as we do. And if they do, it will render us aid, because 

 many of our rivers and lakes are international boundaries, and 

 the consequence would be that our laws could be more properly 

 carried out than at present. We find now that the people 

 living on the American side of the rivers and lakes, having 

 no laws, it makes our men disobey the laws that we pass, for 

 they come to us and say, " You are passing laws on the Cana- 

 da side, when there is no law on the American side, and why 

 should we be trammeled by a law that they are not ?" Take the 

 Detroit River, for instance, Lake Ontario, the whole chain of 



