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of the Galway fishery, and who have literally 

 re-peopled with salmon various streams that 

 previously had no salmon in them, as well as 

 a district of their fishery of thirty miles long 

 by ten wide. They have also opened up a 

 great extent of water, viz., a great number 

 of tributary streams from the Claregalway 

 river, up as high as Ballyhaunis. The reader 

 should look at a map to be able to appreciate 

 what a great district is thus rendered pro- 

 ductive of salmon. 



It will be remembered that the Messrs. 

 Ashworth commenced artificial propagation 

 of salmon at Oughterard, in Galway, the 

 same season that the French commenced at 

 Huningue, neither party being aware of what 

 the other was doing at the time. I quote 

 Mr. Ash worth's own words. 



