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necessary to go again. He thought the experiments 

 which had been successful ought to be allowed to balance 

 those which had not. Experiments in fish culture in 

 Europe, especially in Holland and Germany, had yielded 

 exceedingly promising results. Mr. Whitcher had singled 

 out two rivers in Canada, out of many, for the purpose of 

 supporting his view that fish culture had not been a 

 success, and had stated that although a large quantity of 

 salmon was taken out of certain waters in 1871 there was 

 none in 1881. Mr. Whitcher, as Commissioner of Canada, 

 was charged with the preparation of a report to the 

 Canadian Government upon the state of the fisheries. 

 The report for 1882, which surely ought to have been 

 within Mr. Whitcher's access when he published the 

 circular, stated that the salmon fisheries nearly all over 

 Canada, had been much better in 1882 than within 

 the preceding ten years ; and other testimony showed that 

 there had been a magnificent improvement. He knew 

 that Mr. Wilmot, who had been criticised somewhat in 

 the circular, would feel some diffidence in speaking on the 

 point, but he thought he owed it to him to point out that 

 the official documents proved that fish culture had not been 

 in any sense a failure, but a decided success. 



Mr. WlLMOT (Canadian Commissioner) said it was with 

 considerable diffidence that he rose to make any remarks 

 upon that important question. He had been much 

 delighted by the very instructive paper on salmon fisheries, 

 a subject which of course required a great deal of time to 

 enter into fully. Mr. Milne Home, on the opening of the 

 Exhibition, visited the Canadian Court, and he felt sure, 

 from the way in which he expressed his views, that he was 

 extremely delighted with the modus operandi of fish cul- 

 ture in Canada. A few days ago Mr. Home called upon 



