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this river that if each obtains but a small sum in rent, 

 say £1 or so per annum, the total must amount to what, 

 in my opinion, is much beyond its present value as a 

 salmon fishery. 



Herr Landmark and others interested in the welfare of 

 the salmon fisheries of Norway are anxious that her rivers 

 should be rented by anglers, as thereby the nets are 

 bought off and the number of spawning fish increased, 

 and this is effected, in most instances, at a profit to tlie 

 riparian proprietors. 



A large majority of the rivers are fished by sportsmen 

 of the British Isles ; and to the rents paid by them may 

 be chiefly attributed any improvement which may take 

 place in the freshwater fisheries of Norway. 



