GREAT BRITAIN AND CANADA. 453 



That wliicli forbids the taking" of yomig salirion;^ 



Or catching or disturlnug salmon ^yhen spawning or near the spawn- 

 ing beds.^ 



Or interfering with the free passage of sabnon up a river.^ 



Or placing a device in any non-tidal water to obstruct any fish de- 

 scending the stream/ 



That which prohibits the taking, bujang, or selling, or having in pos- 

 session pollen less than eight inches in length.^ 



The Kevised Statutes (1880) of Canada provide — 



Tliat no salmon of less than three pounds shall be caught or killed. ^ 



That no salmon shall be captured within two hundred yards of the 

 mouth of any tributary, creek, or stream which salmon frequent to 

 spawn." 



That no one shall catch, buy, sell, or possess, the young of any fish 

 protected by the statutes.*^ 



The lieport on the Fisheries Protective Service of Canada for 1889 

 (pp. 8, 10), recommends the passage at an early date of similar laws to 

 check the depletion of the lobster and mackerel fisheries of Canada. 

 The establishment of close seasons, and the adoption of stringent laws 

 against the destruction of spawn and young fish are strongly urged. 



An extensive system of hatcheries fi)r the artificial breeding of fish is 

 maintained by the Canadian Government. At these hatcheries there 

 are raised, by artificial processes, salmon, white fish, salmon trout, 

 brook trout, pickerel, black bass, and (since 1891) lobsters.^ Experi- 

 ments have recently been begun with great success in the artificial 

 breeding of cod and oysters.^" The gross output of young fish from the 

 thirteen public hatcheries of Canada for the year 1890 was 9.0,213,000, 

 and tlie number of eggs of fresh and salt water fish placed in the incu- 

 bators, 14:4:,01o,00(); while the total number of young fish turned out of 

 the hatcheries into the waters of Canada since the inception of artificial 

 fish culture by the Government in 18(58, is 799,757,900." 



As the result of the fostering care thus exercised, and other causes, 

 the total export x^i'odnct of Canadian fisheries increased during the 

 fifteen vears succeeding that date (1868-1883), from $3,357,510 to 

 $8,809,118.1- 



II. Next in order of treatment are those statutes which have for 

 their object the prevention of wasteful and destructive methods of kill- 

 ing game, birds, and fishes. In this group may be placed the British 

 statutes forbidding poaching by night, either on private land,'^ or on the 

 public highways ;i^ also — 



Those which prohibit the placing of poison in exposed places,'^ for 



I Ibid., Sec. 15. 

 2Ibid., Sec. 16. 



^36 and 37 Vict., c. 71, Sec. 16. 



•• Ibid., Sec. 15. 



"''The Pollen Fisheries Act, (Ireland) 1891," 54 and 55 Vict., c. 20, Sec. 3. 



fiR. S., c. 95, Sec. 8. 



'Ibid., Sec. 8. 



'^R. S.,c. 95, Sec. 14. 



'Report of the Sujierintendent of Fish Cultwre for the Dominion of Canada, 1890, 

 PI). 7—9. 



'"Report of the Superintendent of Fish Culture for the Dominion of Canada, 1889, 

 pp. 75—81. 



II Ibid., 1890, page 5. 



I'^Joliiisou's Graphic- Statistics of Canada, 1887, page 4. 



1^10 Wm. Ill, c. 8, Sec. 16; 27 Geo. Ill, c. 35, Sees. 4, 5; 9 Geo. IV, c. 69; 11 and 12 

 Vict., c. 29, Sec. 5. 



"7 and 8 Vict., c. 29. 



»n and 2 Wm. IV, c. 32, Sec. 3; 11 and 12 Vict., c. 30, Sec. 4; 26 and 27 Vict., c. 

 113, Sec. 3 



