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the lakes stocked themselves with fresh ova, and kept the 

 whole of these six lakes perpetually stocked with vast 

 quantities of coarse fish, carp, bream, tench, and jack, which 

 were taken to Lyons market, and in fact the people of 

 Lyons had no other fish supply whatever. There must be 

 some mistake on the part of those who said that there was 

 great difficulty in propagating coarse fish. 



Mr. BRADY, Inspector of Irish Fisheries, then pro- 

 posed a vote of thanks to Mr. Marston for his very 

 able paper, the importance of which was shown by the 

 lengthy discussion which had arisen. His countryman, 

 Mr. Bloomfield, had shown how important fish culture 

 might be made in certain parts of Ireland as food for the 

 million, and also for the recreation of the large classes of 

 people which could not afford the sport of salmon fishing. 

 Whatever difference of opinion there might be with regard 

 to the difficulties of culture, there could not be any as to 

 the importance of it as a question of food. Mr. Bloomfield 

 had spoken of the spot from whence he could see 27 lakes ; 

 he could go to hills from which you could look on 1027 

 lakes, the whole of which did not provide 5 worth of food, 

 which might be made very valuable if only there were 

 greater facilities for transit, for after all this was the great 

 difficulty. 



Mr. WlLMOT, Commissioner of Canadian Fisheries, 

 said it afforded him great pleasure to endorse the sen- 

 timents contained in the Paper. If anything, it was 

 more desirable to cultivate coarse fish than the higher 

 orders, for, speaking from an experience of 16 or 18 

 years, the higher orders of fish could not exist without 

 the lower orders. The Almighty, in His providence, had 

 thought proper to put into the same waters fish of 

 high order and of a low order, and it was invariably 



