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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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ch would doubtless lead to the speedy re-establishment of the salmon in.those lovely and limpid waters. The act referred to was so lengthy that I will not quote it here, suffice it tosay that it was a very strong one in the direction of. thorough protection of thesalmon from seining, spearing and destruction by methods now considered baleful inthe highest degree. Mr. Herbert further on says, and I ask your particular atten-tion to this: I earnestly recommend the passage of similar laws to this, by the Legislaturesof the various Eastern States, especially by that of Maine, in reference to every rivereastward, at least, of the mouth of the Kennebec, as the only method by whichthe speedily approaching extinction of the salmon can be prevented. I have nodoubt, however, that if the same laws were passed by the Legislatures of Connec-ticut and New York, with regard to the fine river which gives name to that firstState, and to the noble Hudson, coupled with an absolute prohibition to take or
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394 With Fly-Rod and Camera. So that we anglers are good for something afterall, said Frere. Yes, I replied, and now that we have succeeded destroy the salmon, for the space of five years, that this, the king of fishes, mightbe re-introduced into those waters by the adoption of the simple method I havedescribed. And I take this opportunity of stating that I have good hope of makingsuch arrangements as will enable me to procure in this coming spring, such suppliesof the salmon fry, in the state which admits of their transportation from NovaScotia, as will suffice to establish the possibility of the undertaking. It is my inten-tion, should I succeed in obtaining the support or encouragement from the Legislatureof New Jersey, to make the experiment in the tributaries of the Passaic ; and shouldit be successful, I can only add that it will give me but too much pleasure to assistany gentleman in procuring the means of re-stocking any waters on which they mayreside, with this most game and

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