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and, above all, let us take care not to encourage legal " over- 

 fishing;" and, as gentlemen occasionally give their grouse a 

 year of jubilee, let me prescribe an occasional similar indul- 

 gence to the salmon. Every little helps ; and as we have now 

 a considerable knowledge of the natural history of the fish, we 

 should avail ourselves of it not only in our legislation, but 

 also in the practical management of the fisheries. If in our 

 greed we still continue to overfish, after the numerous warn- 

 ings we have had, we must take the consequences in the 

 probable extermination of the salmon and its numerous 



