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has endeavoured to promote the propagation of fish by 

 rendering pecuniary assistance, and by the appointment 

 of officers to superintend in the management of the 

 operation. 



I should think the subject might well engross the 

 attention of those English who lease rivers in Norway 

 for a term. By getting the several proprietors to 

 co-operate with them, they might find it worth their 

 while to set on foot hatching apparatuses near their 

 waters. Of late years there have been several com- 

 plaints as to the falling off of salmon ; and though bad 

 seasons may have had a great deal to do with this, yet 

 there is no doubt but that poaching at unlawful times 

 is carried on to a very great extent. This can only be 

 remedied by persuading the proprietors not to poach 

 themselves, and to take more care in the preservation 

 of the fishing, and in the propagation of the fish. No 

 doubt a difficult matter ! 



It is somewhat remarkable that the artificial pro- 

 pagation of fish was first discovered in Norway by 

 a simple labouring man in 1848. 



One harvest-time he had been obliged to keep at 

 home on .account of a bad leg. To amuse himself he 

 used to get down to the river-side, and watch the trout 

 on their spawning-ground. Being of an observant 

 nature, he was struck with the manner in which the 

 operation was earned on. He remarked that the male 



