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2) Entrusting administration with the power of reducing the 

 size of mesh in rivers and river-mouths. 



3) Total abolition of mesh regulations relating to all fishing gear 

 in the sea, moveable and fixed. Entrusting administration 

 with the power of locally interfering if occasion should 

 arise. 



4) Abolition of aimual close-times in the sea. 



5) Protection of the spawning process, and distribution of the 

 catch to be effected by an annual close-time in the rivers and 

 by a weekly close-time in the rivers as well as in the sea, pro- 

 vided the same principles, on which our present legislation 

 is founded, are to be followed. 



6) The necessity of effecting the collection of material, 

 consisting of information, calculations etc., necessary to 

 the clear understanding of the question, of whether it will 

 be possible for the state to regulate and limit the fishery 

 in the rivers in a degree essentially more effective than at 

 present and in the rivers to adopt more effective means 

 of securing and increasing the spawning, and consequently 

 the growth and supply of young salmon. 



