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large lakes would, as far as the experience of the American 

 Department goes, suffice to bring up the Irish waters to 

 the standard of production at which we should aim ; and 

 where shall we roam to find the materials for an appeal 

 from this decision ? At p. 55 in Professor Brown Goode's 

 able paper we find, " Pure and applied science have 

 laboured together always in the service of the Fish 

 Commission, their representatives working side by side in 

 the same laboratories ; indeed, much of the best work both 

 in the investigation of the fisheries and in the artificial 

 culture of fishes has been performed by men eminent as 

 zoologists ; " and further, with reference particularly to the 

 inland fisheries, at p. 67, " The planting of shad in California 

 and the Mississippi Valley, and German carp in 10,000 

 separate bodies of water in almost every State in the 

 Union, carried out within three years, is a success beyond a 

 doubt, and of the greatest importance to the country. It 

 has been demonstrated beyond possibility of challenge 

 that our great river fisheries, producing in 1880 

 48,000,000 pounds of alewives, 18,000,000 pounds of shad, 

 52,000,000 pounds of salmon, besides bass, sturgeon, and 

 smelt, and worth at first hands between 4,000,000 and 

 6,000,000 dollars, are entirely under the control of the fish 

 culturist to sustain or to destroy and capable of immense 

 extension." I have dwelt upon the American pioneering 

 because I believe we want no other beacon to guide us in 

 starting to work on the development of our Irish fisheries ; 

 and am I not warranted when the following are the words 

 uttered by no less an authority than Professor Huxley ? 

 "that any nation at the present time had comprehended 

 the question of dealing with fish in so thorough, excellent 

 and scientific a spirit as that of the United States." Have 



