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15. It has also been suggested, that certain deep pools in which 

 A few deep pools in hill streams, nsh take shelter during the dry (not cold) 



it is proposed, should be selected months of the year should be protected m 

 and preserved during the dry the hills, as they- are very easily netted there. 



Mr. Carleton proposes that certain streams 

 should be considered preserves and kept for 

 the breeding of the fish. 



16. Trapping fish in irrigated fields ought to be most strictly 

 Trapping fish objected to, at Pkibited, at least during the monsoon 



least from April to November, months, as an immense amount of injury 

 Size of interstices should be the must occur by destroying all, both young and 



old. If this mode of using fixed engines is 



to be permitted at all, the interstices between the materials of which 

 such traps is composed should be at least \\ inches,, or that laid down 

 for the meshes of fishing nets, whilst they should be prohibited from 

 April to November. 



17. It has, in addition to the foregoing, been suggested in the 



' Sialkot district' (paragraph 28) that the 

 Cashmere Government and /^ p n f t_ i 



those of Bilaspur and Sialkot Government of Cashmere be keenly urged 

 to be requested to assist in pro- to carry out whatever system of preservation 

 tecting valuable fish ascending i s decided upon for India, as efforts in our 

 their hilly streams to breed. , , , i -\ c p i 



territory to preserve this mam staple of food 



must be considerably retarded without their support, because the affluents 

 of the large rivers up which the fish ascend to breed are out of our dis- 

 tricts. ' Mr. Carleton- 7 also observes that the two States, Bilaspur and 

 Sialkot, remain without a single restraint as regards fishing. Those 

 States situated on the Sutlej occupy its finest fishing ground, and some 

 of the best, if not the very best, streams for fish breeding, and no hill 

 people are more addicted to fishing than those living within these two 

 territories. He continues : " I have lived three seasons along the head 

 waters of the Ravi at Chumba, and five seasons along the head waters of 

 the Bias at Kulu, and traversed over the Sutlej valley for ten years as far 

 as Rampur, and nowhere have I seen such destruction of fish as in 

 those two States, especially Sialkot. * * Many of the people have 

 little close hand-nets, with which they regularly clean out the gorges of 

 young fry." 



18. Throughout the various portions of India which I have visited 



in investigating the fish and fisheries, in none 

 have such excellent rules been framed as in 

 this province, embracing as they do protection 

 to the immature fish by prohibiting the use of nets having a mesh less 

 than 1J inches between each knot, disallowing the use of dams, weirs, 

 and stake-nets, and only permitting in the hill streams the employment 

 of such nets as can be held by or thrown from the hand. 



19. The further regulations which it is suggested by the ' Officiat- 



ing Secretary to the Paniab Government/ 



lurther ones proposed. , ., ../ ., , *, r , . 



are, prohibiting the sale of the fry of fishes m 



the bazars or mahaseer under lib. weight ; a close season during July 

 and August ; the establishment of breeding tanks in connection with 

 the irrigation canals, and by gratings or otherwise to prevent the fish 

 going down these canals. 



