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CHAPTER XXXI. 



SAFSOLEONJA FERAX. 



The magnitude of destruction wrought at the present 

 time by this scourge appears to be little appreciated by 

 others than those who unfortunately, in one sense, 

 have its fatal results brought immediately before their 

 notice, or surely remedies would ere this have been 

 attempted. But no ! the authorities at headquarters 

 treat the disease with phlegmatic apathy, the Fishery 

 Boards confine their operations to interment of its 

 victims, and riparian proprietors do nothing what- 

 ever. 



Under such circumstances it is not to be wondered 

 that the disease is yearly becoming more virulent, while 

 extending its deadly clutch. 



Inspectors from time to time have visited the affected 

 districts with no further result, and the time has now 

 arrived when the value of many fisheries will be 

 seriously diminished unless drastic measures of reform 

 be very shortly put into operation. 



