CHAPTEK V. 



REMAKES ON THE ARTIFICIAL BREEDING OF SALMON 

 IN NORWAY. 



DURING the last ten years, the attention of the Nor- 

 wegian government has heen directed towards the pro- 

 pagation of salmon by artificial means. In a country 

 like the Scandinavian peninsula, which has such an 

 extent of sea-board, and which abounds in rivers large 

 and small, running into fjords which intersect the coast, 

 there are so many natural facilities afforded for the 

 protection of the young fish, that it only requires some 

 additional attention on the part of the inhabitants 

 themselves, to make Norway stand at the head of the 

 salmon-producing countries of Europe. 



Fully alive to the disadvantages which many parts of 

 the country labour under in an agricultural respect, 

 owing to the rigour of winter and the unfertile nature* 

 of the soil, the government, with a laudable generosity, 



* The whole area of Norway is about 121,800 square miles, out 

 of which not more than 1,OCO are under cultivation, 



