THE FISHERY INTERESTS OF AUSTRIA. 



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' Location. 



1 In the building for young fish, No. 3 

 ' In the building for young iish, No. 4 



' In the hatching-house, No. 2 



1 In the hatching-house, No. 1 



1 In the small pond 



' In the larger pond 



' In the largest pond 



"Total 



Age. 



One and a half years. . . 



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Two and a half years . . 



do '. 



Various 



Three and a half years. 



Number. 



3,700 

 2,100 

 3,000 

 1,010 

 1,400 

 944 

 250 



12, 454 



Weight. 



Pounds, 

 avoirdupois. 

 54 

 67£ 

 171J 



277A 

 lti<5§ 



150 



982$ 



"Of this number, 2G2£ pounds of fish could be sold during 1870. 



u Tbe quality of tbe fish was very good, since, even at a high price, 

 they found a ready market. The capital invested has therefore borne 

 its fall interest.'* 



A further proof that it only requires some encouragement in order to 

 have our smaller pisciculturists make practical inventions and improve- 

 ments is furnished by Mr. Kottl, a miller of Neukirchen. Formerly, 

 the better kind of food-fish were brought direct to Vienna from the 

 lakes and streams of Upper Austria; the fishermen not taking the least 

 care of the eggs contained in many of these fish. Kottl, at present, 

 gets what he can of these eggs, and immediately impregnates them. 

 Tbe female lake and brook trout which are on the point of spawning 

 when caught by the fishermen are brought to him, and their eggs are 

 impregnated by the male brook-trout from his establishment. In this 

 manner he has, in a short time, impregnated 200,000 eggs of brook and 

 lake trout, which, without his intervention, would have been sold in 

 Vienna with the fish. 



In Upper Austria, a fishing-club has recently been formed, and its 

 preparations for pisciculture are progressing favorably. The headwaters 

 at St. Peter, near Linz, have been secured by a lease of ten years, a 

 hatching-house has been built, a covered pond for young fish is almost 

 finished, and the digging of an open pond has been commenced. (Re- 

 port for 1871.) 



Another hatching-house has recently been started by Werndl in Steyer. 



In Lower Austria, there is a piscicultural establishment at Hollenburg. 

 Mr. Fichtner, in Atzgersdorf, diffuses a knowledge of pisciculture by 

 lectures and publications. No noteworthy results, however, have so far 

 been obtained. That encouragement is wanting which this branch of 

 industry seems to require in its beginning. 



In Styria, Baron de Washington, at Pols, has made the most praise- 

 worthy efforts to further tbe cause of pisciculture by tbe exhibition of 

 models, by lectures, and by giving general encouragement. 



The farmers and the middle class begin to take an interest in pisci- 

 culture, and there are small establishments at Werndorf, Voitsberg, 

 Kofiach, Hirschegg, Altaussee, and other places. 



Baron de Washington has succeeded in making the raising of gold- 

 fish more common. These fish, which originally came from China, but 



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