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of the other, this would be equivalent to having only one interest 

 existing. 



This object, the state has long ago attempted to attain in 

 other European countries where salmon fisheries are important. 

 As an example may be mentioned Great Britain and specially 

 Ireland, where the main object of the state has been to concen- 

 trate the salmon fisheries as river and estuary-fisheries, while 

 the opposite interest, the fishing with fixed engines in the sea 

 has been put down, or allowed only when the rights were of 

 a very early date. 



I beheve, that in regard to our country it is also right, that 

 the state should endeavour to simplify the conditions relating to 

 salmon fisheries and if possible attempt to create only one 

 interest. 



For this purpose it will be in vain to seek a model in the 

 system of other European countries, as the evolution of our 

 salmon fisheries has been essentially different from that of all 

 other countries I know. 



The question of which interest is to be supported and which 

 interest must be subjected to the increased control of state may 

 only be answered by a closer examination of the development 

 of our own fisheries. It must be exactly calculated, which 

 fishery, that of the river or that of the sea offers the greatest 

 prospects of improvement. 



For this purpose I believe that we possess good material 

 in the statistics collected by our inspector of salmon and fresh- 

 water fisheries, and I also believe that the results got from my 

 investigations will be able to afford some support for a decision. 



In order to obtain a clear general view of the progress of 

 our salmon fisheries during the period in which reliable sta- 

 tistics are available, I have constructed graphical tables which 

 are based on Mr. Landmarks statistical tables and which repre- 

 sent the total yield of all our salmon rivers, the total yield of 

 the salmon fisheries in the sea, the total yield of the salmon 



