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ova, and burying them in the gravel of running 

 water after the manner already shown. The 

 second method is by transferring to them parent 

 fish of both sexes, at the time of their commencing 

 in their native rivers the operations of spawning. 

 The transferred fish must be placed in a deep 

 pool of the new river, from which they will ascend 

 and select appropriate spawning localities. 



The laws resfulatino; the salmon-fisheries in 



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Scotland and Ireland do not require material 

 amendment. The chief one required is the limi- 

 tation of net-fishing, cruives, and so forth to the 

 20th Aujrust. Ano^lino^, — I mean flv-fishing for 

 salmon, — may be permitted for a month later. 

 The rivers of England and Wales, without any 

 exception, should be placed under the nearly 

 wholesome restrictions to which happily those of 

 Ireland and Scotland are subjected. 



I conclude these pages cheered by the hope 

 that they will lead to the propagation and pre- 

 servation of salmon on a far more extended, 

 liberal, and enlightened scale than hitherto — that 

 at a time when so much attention is directed to 

 waste lands, they will cause it to be likewise 

 directed to waste waters, in which exist abundant 

 fertile elements of most valuable production, in 



