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also magnificent rivers, teeming originally with salmon and 

 trout, and they never found black bass in them until lately, 

 when, in consequence of man having killed all the salmon 

 and trout, black bass had been introduced, and in conse- 

 quence there was nothing but black bass there now. Black 

 bass was a good game fish and a food fish, but they should 

 be put into waters by themselves, or where there was 

 plenty of inferior fish for them to feed upon, but not where 

 they could interfere with better kinds. There was a lake 

 in Canada which teemed with black bass, pike, perch, sun- 

 fish, and other of the lower orders, and being a small lake, 

 the temperature in summer was 80 to 90, and there the 

 black bass abounded ; but the inhabitants fished it to such 

 an extent that they exterminated the bass. A petition 

 was sent in to the Legislature about it, and an order was 

 passed that there should be no netting for three years. 

 When that period expired there was an abundance. No 

 one was permitted to spear in it or to net ; none but anglers 

 fished it, and there was abundance for all. You never 

 could destroy fish by angling, but in one year they could 

 be destroyed by netting. Still it was no use for an intel- 

 ligent man to read such an instructive Paper as they had 

 heard to-day, or for other people to discuss it, if men of 

 science, holding the highest positions in the country, told 

 them that it was useless to protect the fish, and that they 

 could take care of themselves. He could only say, if such 

 views were to prevail, the time would ccjrne when there 

 would be no fish in Great Britain or any other part of the 

 world. 



The resolution having been carried unanimously, 

 Mr. MARSTON, in reply, said there was no intention 

 whatever to introduce the black bass into trout or salmon 

 streams, any more than they thought of putting the pike 



