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have deterred the government from taking up this work. If 

 Canadian fish-culture is doing anything to keep up the supphes 

 of fish in our salmon rivers, our great lakes and inland streams, 

 it is doing much. By introducing western species into eastern 

 waters and vice versa, it may do more, and we mayj^therefore be 

 content to permit "the illimitable ocean, open to all the fishing Ae^s 

 of the world, to be recuperated by the ^^unassisted methods of 

 Nature herself. 



