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season of 180(3-7, one hundred tons of bait mussel were sold, and 
this season the sales will be about double that of last. 
I need only remark in conclusion that there are other Northum- 
berland streams and rivers which are daily carrying down vegetable 
matter such as diatoms and alga? to the sea, and that much of that 
could be trapped before it quite reached that length, or immediately 
it got there, and converted into bait for the fishermen. I should 
like very much to see this Committee empowered to lay down beds, 
and to see to their maintenance, in many places where mussels are 
found to grow naturally to a useful size. 
