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not think there could be any question in any one's mind 

 who had heard the eloquent speech of the gentleman from 

 Ireland, who referred not only to the importance of these 

 fish as a means of sport, but as food. As to the first point, 

 they were told that the man who made two blades of grass 

 grow where only one grew before, was a benefactor, and 

 the same principle applied to those who not only provided 

 food, but also provided another great need of the 

 labouring classes, and that was some health-giving sport 

 or recreation giving them absolute relaxation from the 

 turmoil of their every day life. He did not think there 

 was any sport within the reach of the working-classes 

 so innocent and health-giving as that of angling, and if it 

 were possible to stock the numerous depleted waters in and 

 around all our large manufacturing centres, it was certainly 

 desirable to do so. As to the question if it were possible 

 he could not help fancying that people who wrote and 

 talked so much about the Salmonidae, thought it was equally 

 practicable to reproduce artificial coarse or summer spawn- 

 ing fish ; but it was not so. Some four years ago, it was 

 brought forward at a meeting of the Thames Angling 

 Preservation Society by Mr. Benningfield, who asked him 

 (Mr. Geen), to consider it, and it was to be brought forward 

 at the next meeting, but to his surprise the subject dropped ; 

 but from a conversation he had had with him, the result 

 was, that it was perfectly practicable to artificially spawn 

 perch ; but no other summer spawning fish. The reason 

 was this, the Salmonidae gave a solid egg, which you could 

 handle, and send to the uttermost parts of the world if 

 necessary ; but the spawn of the coarse fish was something 

 you could not handle without destruction. The roach, for 

 instance, deposited their spawn with the greatest care in 

 suitable spots ; they would go up day after day with the 



