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exactly accurate account of the number of small-meshed 

 cruives used in the district of South Canara, but there 

 are sufficient data for concluding that there were at least 

 1,050 on the one river, the Netravaty, with its affluents. 

 If it be calculated that every one of these cruives cap- 

 tures on an average 3,000 fish in a day, then there are 

 as many as 94,500,000 tiny fry destroyed for no ade- 

 quate purpose in a single month in one river alone. To 

 say what may be the total number thus destroyed in the 

 course of a year in all the rivers of Canara would be be- 

 yond my arithmetic. These closely-woven bamboo crui- 

 ves then have been forbidden and vigorously hunted out 

 of the rivers. It is not to be concluded that they have been 

 entirely got rid of, far from it; there are clearly many 

 remote places where they are freely used, and the water 

 bailiffs sought are wanted as much for this purpose as 

 for- stopping poisoning. Still a considerable impression 

 has already been made. 



21. The consequence has been that the most igno- 

 rant, and therefore the most obstinate, opponents have 

 been convinced by the testimony of their own senses, and 

 have exclaimed, to use their own words, "truly, the river 

 is everywhere bubbling with fry;" and, what is still more 

 to the point, their practice has not belied their words, for 

 they have taken to fishing on grounds that were before 

 considered profitless. 



22. Though this is nothing more than in my former 

 paper I anticipated would be the natural result of the 

 simultaneous stopping of poisoning and prohibition of the 



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