people, and as such should be protected and looked to by 

 the Government. He would ask the Home Office to recon- 

 sider the matter, and not only because they had not taken 

 the pollutions out of different rivers, but because they have 

 failed in their duty by neglecting to propagate the fish in 

 the rivers that were to receive them. He hoped that 

 what had been said would not pass out of their minds, 

 but would remain there until they had induced the 

 Government to do their duty in the matter. 



Mr. MILNE HOME, in reply, said that if there had been 

 nothing more than the opportunity which had been given 

 to his friends from the United States and from Canada to 

 give the explanations to which the meeting had been 

 listening, the Conference had done good. He had been 

 somewhat astonished when he read the circular .referred 

 to, because it was in contradiction to what he had read 

 of the complete success of artificial fish culture, and he 

 could not believe it possible that such statements were 

 correct, but he felt it was not for him to bring the matter 

 forward in a paper relating only to the fisheries of this 

 country. They had had the pleasure of hearing from Mr. 

 Wilmot and Professor Brown Goode that the statements 

 were not to be credited, and he cordially agreed with 

 the views which had been expressed as to the value of 

 artificial hatching. They had in their own country a 

 hatchery belonging to his friend Mr. James Maitland, 

 which he had visited twice, and knew to be a success. 

 There was one in Dumfriesshire, and there were two or 

 three others, on a smaller scale. . He hoped they would 

 soon have more of those private establishments, but he 

 also could not help thinking and saying that there ought 

 to be some encouragement given to them by Government. 

 If they were to appoint an inspector to visit those esta- 



