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Show SAVING THE SALMON INDUSTRY Thoro must be a general cooperative coopera-tive policy adopted by states and federal authorities to save the salmon sal-mon from extermination. That noble fish has been roi.ip'ote-ly roi.ip'ote-ly destroyed on the Atlantic coast and unless a scientific policy Intervenes Inter-venes will disappear on tho I'acltle, A treaty has Just been signed to regulated the sockrye ealmon inlits-try inlits-try as between the UnlteJ States nnd Canada to have this variety. lor years there has been wirfarj between the American and tht Can adlan fishermen. The nav t caty provides the really essential details ot vropagatlng tho species. "Propagating salmon wl iiout feeding feed-ing ponds or nurseries has betn steadily diminishing the ninui'l cutch. Now there Is a question c i t( whether tho "balance of prod w 'or.'1 has been lost. Wlicn any species, whether bird, animal cr fish, falls In numbers below a power to reproduce In numbers that will leave a targe proportion after natural enemies have accomplished their destruction, extinction threatens. Only artificial reproduction on a large scale and, tn this particular Instance, holding the young fish In feeding ponds until they have attained tho ability of self vrotectlon will savet hem. It may be hoved that under It both American and Canadian flshv' men will abstain from fishing that destroys tholr Industry. |