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MR. RICHARD NETTLE. 



Of English birth, Mr. Nettle first saw the light of day 

 in 1812. He died in Ottawa in May, 1905, at the age of 93. 

 He was an angler from his youth, and his first salmon was 

 killed in the Devonshire Tamar, before the drainage from 

 mines in the vicinity had killed off all the salmonidae inhab- 

 iting that beautiful stream. 



Entering the Royal Navy at an early age, he first visited 

 Quebec on H.M.S. Hastings, which conveyed Lord Durham 

 and suite to Canada. He returned to Canada in 1842, taking 

 up his residence in Quebec as a school teacher, and early in 

 1857, the year in which he was appointed Superintendent of 

 Fisheries, he published his attractive book on "The Salmon 

 Fisheries of the St. Lawrence,'' 

 which was dedicated, by permission, 

 to the Governor-General, Sir Ed- 

 mund Head, Bart., himself much 

 interested in the then existing neces- 

 sity for adequate protection of our 

 Salmonidae, and also an enthusiastic 

 salmon fisherman. 



Embodied in Mr. Nettle's book 

 is an admirable paper on "The De- 

 crease, Restoration and Preservation 

 of Salmon in Canada," which was 

 read before the Canadian Institute 

 in 1856 by the Rev. Dr. Adamson, 

 then Chaplain of the Legislative Council of United Canada, 

 and an eminent authority on salmon problems, who was also 

 the author of "Salmon Fishing in Canada," edited by Col. 

 Sir James Alexander, and published in London in 1863. 



HON. JOSEPH CAUCHON AND THE FISHERIES. 



In the same year that Mr. Nettle's book appeared, the 

 Hon. Joseph Cauchon, then Commissioner of Crown Lands, 

 drew public attention to the importance of the Canadian 

 fisheries in his annual report to the Governor-General. 



Sir Edmund Head, 

 Governor-in-Chicf. 



