36 Angling Travels in Norway. 



discretion upon salmon rivers, but the Norwegian is not by 

 nature an angler, and it does not occur to him to extend 

 to sportsmen any consideration in this direction. 



The capture of migratory Salmonidse in the rivers of 

 Norway is regulated and controlled by laws distinct 

 from those which apply to the fjords. 



Occasionally there are stretches of water, half fjord, 



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Trap open. 



TBAP FOB SHALLOW WATER. 



half river, which, however, come under the river regula- 

 tions, and as these are of no use for angling, the enter- 

 prising Norsk uses them as fields for the exercise of his 

 ingenuity in the setting of salmon-traps, and in this pursuit 

 he is no fool. 



The trapper selects for his engine a situation where the 

 passage of the fish is narrowly defined, and then extends 

 a projecting arm of timber or masonry to make the 



