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enough to grant him permission to fish his streams. Some 

 years ago he came to a fine shallow and there found four 

 swans with their heads down going along on the scour. 

 The man who was with him said, " I am afraid you will 

 not get any fish off there to-day ; " and his reply was " No ; 

 and who is going to get any three years hence ? " He 

 drove the swans away, went in and sifted the gravel, and 

 there was not one-tenth part of the ova left ; they had 

 gobbled it up by pints, and what was the result ? Later 

 on the same nobleman granted him a day's fishing, 

 and, instead of catching fifteen or sixteen pounds of trout, 

 he killed only five takeable fish, and in two years the stream 

 would not be worth throwing a fly upon. They had heard 

 from Professor Huxley that the destruction of man did 

 not matter, and that nature would balance itself. He was 

 willing to grant that with regard to the herring and the cod 

 it might be so, but with regard to the Crustacea inshore and 

 trawl fish, which they were not now discussing, he entirely 

 denied it from his own practical observation. He knew 

 of one ledge of rocks on which a family could once gain 

 a livelihood of 6 a week, and it was now not worth 

 fishing. 



Mr. WHEELDON, while thoroughly indorsing what had 

 been said with regard to the Paper, confessed to some dis- 

 appointment that Mr. Marston had not suggested some 

 practical scheme which might be placed in due time before 

 the National Association of Fish Culture, of which he had 

 the honour to be on the Council. He should like to have 

 heard of some thoroughly well-developed scheme for which 

 they might have asked the co-operation and assistance of the 

 Legislature. He had very little belief personally in the idea 

 that the angling clubs of London would be the greater sup- 

 porters to this scheme, because, unfortunately, however hearty 



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