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reputation ; more especially as the Canadian Minister at 

 the head of the Fisheries Department, and himself, were 

 here on behalf of that country advocating the importance 

 of fish-cultural operations in the Dominion, the practical 

 display of which, at this great International Fisheries 

 Exhibition, had gained for itself great popular favour, and 

 also materially aided in the general exhibit, and placed 

 Canada amongst the foremost of the nations for efficiency 

 and completeness in the science of artificially propagating 

 fish. From the gratifying way in which Professor Goode's 

 remarks and his own had been received on this subject, 

 it was clearly unnecessary to refer further to this "under 

 the belt " stab in the circular, feeling assured that similar 

 conduct is always frowned down by the manly English 

 public. 



Mr. C. E. FRYER (Home Office) said if the Exhibition 

 fulfilled no other object than that of making people think, 

 it would have achieved a great work. They had just 

 received a great deal of information about the manner in 

 which fish culture was carried on in the United States and 

 in Canada, and as to the beneficial results derived from 

 the artificial culture of salmon, and he would just say a few 

 words to show the benefits which had resulted from the 

 protection of salmon in this country even without artificial 

 hatching. In 1863 the value of the salmon rivers in 

 England and Wales was about 18,000; at the present 

 time the value of the same rivers was somewhere about 

 150,000. That increase, large as it was, by no means 

 represented the possibilities of English rivers, if they were 

 purified and greater facilities given for the access of salmon 

 into the upper waters to spawn. This had already been 

 done to a certain extent ; and, in addition, restrictions had 

 been placed on the power of man to catch the salmon in 



