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for assistance either by strikes or by popular pressure. 

 This encouragement the State is now ready to extend still 

 further, and it now only awaits the knowledge of the best 

 means of rendering assistance. It now, therefore, only 

 remains to hope, that the fishing class, assisted by the 

 invention of improved implements, incited by further dis- 

 coveries concerning the haunts and habits of fish, regulated 

 by that restraint, so to use as not to abuse, which fishermen 

 must apply to themselves in regard to fish protection, and 

 aided by the mutual consent of foreign nations to adopt 

 wise principles for the regulation of sea fisheries that this 

 class thus assisted may proceed to develope in the future, 

 still further than it has done in the past, an industry of 

 vital importance to the national and commercial prosperity 

 of a maritime nation possessed of so large a sea-board as 

 our own. 



