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should encourage the establishment of more hatcheries 

 for the artificial propagation of the salmon. The 

 Dominion of Canada, or the province of British 

 Columbia, should take concurrent action on the same 

 lines, and a close time of at least every other year in a 

 given period of say six years should be adopted, during 

 which time no fishing by revolving wheel traps, seines, 

 dip nets, spearing or in any other manner should be 

 permitted for the purpose of canning, preserving, salt- 

 ing or smoking the fish. 



Thus any salmon packed during the close years would 

 be confiscated as illegally packed, and the offending 

 packer punished by fine or imprisonment. As the 

 value of the pack at the present time aggregates close 

 to $30,000.000, it must necessarily mean joint action 

 on the part of the states, provinces and nations inter- 

 ested to bring about the best and most thorough re- 

 sults. 



I am not preaching anything new, at least not 

 to residents of the Pacific Coast. They already see 

 the handwriting on the wall, and realize that some- 

 thing must be done, and that speedily, to remedy the 

 present extravagant destruction of the fish. 



British Columbia would like to see the states of 

 Oregon and California and the territory of Alaska 

 exact such legislation, while those states and that 

 territory would be pleased immensely if British Colum- 

 bia would set the example and make a close period. 



