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QUESTIONS RELATING TO FISH. 
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Your Commissioners have been quite unable to classify the answers received 
to the questions relating to Fish, This is owing entirely to the great difference of 
opinion on the part of the witnesses examined, as to the proper close and open 
_ seasons. 
E The enquiries made lead your Commissioners to believe that this is probably 
the most important as well as the most difficult question with which the Govern- 
ment will have to deal. 
. Without very exhaustive enquiries, careful experiments, and close observa- 
tions, requiring of necessity much time, and involving a considerable expenditure 
of money, it will be impossible to arrive at a satisfactory solution regarding the 
best arrangement of the seasons, and the re-stocking of the now depleted waters. 
¥ This work must be left to a permanent Commission to overtake ; it cannot 
be done quickly, and will require the most careful thought and research that it is 
possible to give it. 
