300 Protection to shrimps and prawns. A 



estuary was therefore buoyed off, to be left undisti 

 for shrimps to' breed in. This might perhaps be 

 with advantage in every estuary. 



124. Shrimps may be looked upon rather as a 

 ry or sweet morsel for men than as real food, wh 

 many fishes these little scavengers are the proper 

 main sustenance. It is unwise, therefore, of man to 

 the food out of the mouths of useful fish for the sa 

 a petty luxury to himself, and thus to starve the h 

 and consequently defraud himself of a better supj 

 food in them. It-would be wiser to recognise that sht 

 are to man only a luxury, and, recognising it, to 

 them as a luxury and not a necessary of life, and c 

 quently to have no compunction about making the 

 expensive as to be within the reach only of the few 

 thus to save them from the many, and leave the 

 answer the more useful end of being food for fishes, 

 could be conveniently done by making the tax on sh 

 nets just so heavy as materially to discourage shrim 

 It would seem to be simple justice and wisdom to tl 

 fisheries, and no real hardship to men. 



125. The same remarks have nearly equal ap 

 bility to prawns and prawn curries, and not only to Ci 

 and India, but to all sea fisheries. 



126. A pisciculturist in America has gone so i 

 to advocate the artificial hatching of salmon for thi 

 purpose of providing a food calculated to induce tb 

 ger sea-fish to frequent the tidal rivers in larger nun 

 If the fry of such valuable fish can with advanta 



