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NETS AND TRAPS IN THE FJORDS AND RIVERS. 



The stock of salmon existing at the present time iu 

 Norwegian rivers is generally considered to be much less 

 than in years gone by, and the cause of the decrease is 

 attributed to the greed of the netsmen along the coast and 

 at the mouths and along the margins of the fjords ; and 

 when it is considered that these arms of the sea, many of 

 them some thirty miles or more in length, through which 

 fish must pass en route to the rivers, are furnished at 

 every promontory with an elaborate system of netting, 

 it is apparent how great must be the odds against a 

 fish emerging scathless from the ordeal. 



Fish, like blind men, steer by the margin of the road, 

 and it is obvious that their path is more nearly defined at 

 points where the land projects out into the fjord, round 

 which they must turn, so these are the positions generally 

 selected for the setting of nets. 



It is unnecessary here to enter into full details of the 



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