EESULT OF DESTRUCTION OF FISH EGGS. 81 



to the Woods and Forests and the Dyers' 

 and Vintners' Companies. 



We have seen now, therefore, what some 

 of the causes of destruction of fish eggs are. 

 I say nothing of the desolating causes after 

 they are grown up into fish. 



The results are — we will take the case of 

 the king of fishes, the salmon — that, according 

 to given data and accurate calculations of 

 the returns of fisheries made by Messrs. Ash- 

 worth and Buist, only one salmon's egg out 

 of every thousand deposited by the parent fish 

 ever becomes a fish fit for human food. Other 

 fish, both fresh and salt water, suffer in 

 proportion, or we should not have such long 

 prices to pay for turbot, soles, and other 

 first-class fish at the fishmonger's. 



