20.— STATISTICAL REVIEW OF FISH-CULTURE IN EUROPE AND NORTH 



AMERICA. 



BY N. BORODINE, 

 Delegate of the Russian Association of Pisciculture and Fisheries. 



During the last two years 1 have made a special study of fish-culture outside of 

 my country, and visited many hatcheries of importance in P^urope and North America. 

 I have thus been enabled to collect some material, which is summarized in the follow- 

 ing short review. The figures of North America were taken from the reports of the 

 U. S. Fish Commission, State Fish Commissions, annual reports of the Ministry of 

 Marine and Fisheries of the Dominion of Canada, and from the report of the super- 

 intendent of fisheries of Newfoundland. Those reports, regularly issued, are uniform, 

 but do not include any information about private fish-hatcheries. For Europe the 

 figures have been taken from scattered information in special literature, from official 

 information furnished by the respective governments, and private information from the 

 proprietors of fish-hatcheries which I visited personally. 



I do not consider the following figures as absolutely exact; on the contrary I am 

 sure that in one case, for want of regular reports, they are less than reality. Never- 

 theless I believe that a review of figures already known upon this matter may have 

 some interest. Concluding these introductory remarks, I ought to say that I do not 

 deal in this paper with pond-culture, the only object of comparison being the hatching 

 of fish in the establishments specially constructed for that purpose. 



The following table gives an idea of the number of fish hatched (in one season) 

 in different countries of North America and Europe, with the date of information, 

 number of fish-hatcheries, and expenses of the government for fish-culture. 



Countries. 



North America : 

 United States : 



State tisl'.-hatcheries 



U. S. Fish Commission . 



Total United States 

 Dominion of Canada ... 

 Newfoundland 



Total North America. 

 Europe : 



Norway 



Germany 



Switzerland 



Great Britain 



Sweden 



France 



Austria- Hungary 



Italy 



Netherlands 



Russia 



Total of Europe . 

 Grand total 



Date of 



informa- 

 tion. 



1882-92 

 1891-92 



1890-91 

 1890-91 



1890 

 1891 

 1890 

 1891 

 1891 

 1891 

 1891 

 1891 

 1891 

 1891 



1891 



No. offish 

 hatcheries. 



46 

 20 



66 



13 



1 



80 



58 

 90 

 84 

 16 

 34 

 17 

 96 

 5 

 2 



14 



416 



496 



No. of fish 

 hatched. 



416, 000, 000 

 491, 200, 000 



Annual appro- 

 priation for 

 fish-culture. 



907, 200, 000 

 128, 000, 000 

 581,000,000 



1. 616, 200, 000 



214. 500, 000 

 25, 500, 000 

 13, 700, 000 

 8, 600, 000 

 5. 400, 000 

 4. 200, 000 

 2, 800, 000 

 1, 100, 000 

 1, 000, 000 

 1, 000, 000 



277, 800. 000 



1, 894, 000, 000 



$174, 040. 00 

 150, 000. 00 



324, 040. 00 



39, 496. 50 



6, 100. 00 



369, 636. 50 



4, 166. 50 



21,815.00 



2, 207. 00 



3, 960. 00 



2, 084. 00 

 2, 800. 00 



37, 032. 50 



406, 669. 00 



F. C. B. 1893—13 



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