72 SALMON FISHERY LAWS. 



all the ancient Acts, and another in 1865, to amend 

 and improve the previous Act of Parliament. The 

 object of these various laws was to protect the parent 

 salmon in the breeding season, and to prevent an un- 

 due proportion of adult fish from being caught in the 

 rivers, thereby to sustain a sufficient stock offish to 

 reproduce their species and to prevent their becoming 

 extinct, the details of which I need not explain. 



