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Title: With fly-rod and camera
Year: 1890 (1890s)
Authors: Samuels, Edward A. (Edward Augustus), 1836-1908
Subjects: Fishing Fishing
Publisher: New York, Forest and Stream Pub. Co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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ken in the nets and weirs about the mouth of a river,there should be a tax levied upon those fish which wouldpay the expense of planting and maturing at least fivehundred others. Wouldnt there be a good deal of machinery andred tape needed in such a method? asked Frere, Not necessarily, I replied; a very simple, plainlaw could be enacted that would meet all the require-ments ; perhaps a stated tax on the number of salmontaken in the nets and weirs — the tax beino^ based on theascertained statistics of cost of production — to be used indeveloping fishculture would be enough. There is no doubt you are right, said Frere, theremarkable growth of the lobster-canning industry on ourshores is an illustration In point. All along our Cana-dian seaboard lobster trapping has been pushed to suchan extent that in many localities where the fish was form-erly abundant, it is now almost extinct. Yes, I replied, and trapping and netting will dothe same for the salmon. It is for us anglers to check
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390 JVith Fly-Rod and Camera. the evil all we can, for it is to us that the great workof restockincr our rivers is due. How is that? asked Frere. Why, the idea originated with that prince of sports-men, Henry W. Herbert, better known as Frank Forres-ter, and it Avas advocated by other sportsmen, and pushedand pushed until the different governments took it up, andit has now attained wonderful proportions, * Yes, it is * In the Edinburgh New Philosophical Joiirmil for July, 1S36, there is an ac-count of some experiments made by Mr. Shaw. Commenting on these experimentsMr. Herbert, in his book on Fish and Fishing, says: Mr. Shaw, it seems, caused three ponds to be made, of different sizes, atabout fifty yards distant from a salmon river, the Erith, the ponds being suppliedby a stream of spring water -well furnished with larvae of insects. The averagetemperature of the water in the rivulet was rather higher and less variable than ofthat in the river; otherwise the circumstances of the ova

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