CONTENTS 



Tage. 



A. GENERAL CONSIDERATIONS 571 



1. Early protective measures 571 



2. Improved appreciation of the interest 572 



3. The object of fishery-legislation 573 



B. THE FISHERIES 575 



4. The former condition of the Austrian fisheries 575 



5. The present condition of the fisheries, and its causes 576 



0. Artificial fish-breeding 580 



7. Progress of foreign fisheries 585 



Great Britain 585 



France „ 586 



Germany . 587 



8. Condition of pisciculture in Austria. 589 



9. Value of the products of the fisheries 598 



10. Fishery-statistics 601 



11. Scientific investigations 603 



C. THE IMPORTANT FRESH-WATER FISHES 605 



12. The Salmon family (Salmonoidei) 606 



13. The Pike family (Esccini) 613 



14. The Catfish family (Sunroidei) 613 



15. The Cod family ( Gadoidei) 613 



16. The Eels (Marcenoidei) 614 



17. The Carp family ( Cyprinoidei) 614 



18. The Perch family (Percoidei) 616 



19. The Sturgeon family (Acipenserini) , 616 



20. The Crawfish (Astacus fluviatilis) 617 



D. PROTECTIVE LEGISLATION 618 



21. Fishing-privileges 618 



22. Foreign fishery-laws 619 



Prussia 619 



Bavaria , 630 



Wiirtemberg 631 



Baden 631 



Saxony 632 



Liibeck 633 



Switzerland 633 



France : 635 



Italy 635 



Denmark and Sweden and Norway 637 



Russia 637 



United States 637 



Great Britain 638 



23. Fishing-privileges and fishing-laws in Austria 643 



Old fishing-laws 643 



The present fishing-law 650 



24. The buying-off of fishing-privileges 665 



25. International fishery-treaties 669 



26. Salt-water fisheries and the laws relating to them 674 



E. CONCLUSION 677 



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