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of the years 1875-1878, and at most of these stations not enough is made 

 to pay two fishermen, as the income from the fisheries barely suffices to 

 ]>ay for the nets." Jacob Glockner also states, in an article entitled Yom 

 Rheine [From the Rhine], published in Ko. 0, 1882, of the same journal, 

 that the number of fish in the Rhine was much larger twenty to thirty 

 years ago. It is said that for the last fourteen years a large number of 

 young salmon have annually been placed in ditto rent parts of the river 

 Oder; nevertheless the editor of the Deutsche Fischer ei-Zeitung says in 

 No. LI, L882, p. 330 of that journal, that no increase in the yield of the 

 salmon fisheries can be noticed. It cannot therefore be decided with 

 absolute certainty whether the artificial hatching of salmon has really 

 proved a success in these rivers, as is maintained by the zealous mem- 

 ber of the German Fishery Association Max von dem Borne. It is also 

 very remarkable that the German Government, which heretofore had 

 specially favored every enterprise of the German Fishery Association, 

 and which had lent strong material aid to the great international Fish- 

 ery Exposition inaugurated by the association in 1880, absolutely re- 

 fused any Government aid to the representation of Germany at the 

 International Fishery Exposition which in the present year is to be held 

 in London, in cousequeuce of which refusal the association has been 

 obliged to give up all idea of being represented at the London Exposi- 

 tion. 



The association has recently addressed a petition for aid to the Ger- 

 man Parliament, but the finance committee of that body is said to have 

 refused to grant this petition. 



AUSTRIA. 



Recently several private piscicultural establishments, on the German 

 model, have been founded in different parts of the Austrian Empire, 

 and the young fish hatched in these establishments have as a general 

 rule been placed in open waters. But the largest, most famous, and 

 oldest of these establishments, "The Central Institution for Artificial 

 Fish Culture, " at Hellbrunn, near Salzburg, which had been in exist- 

 ence for nearly 17 years, and where annually as many as 3,500,000 

 fish-eggs, principally of salmonoids, Coregonus, and graylings, had been 

 hatched, was closed last year, owing to " slack business." The article 

 which Andrae Schreyer wrote in a piscicultural journal on this estab- 

 lishment, the prospects of which were at one time exceedingly hopeful, 

 is not without interest. The establishment was laid out according to a 

 very extensive plan, no less than 31 ponds belonging to it ; and in addi- 

 tion to these the Salzburg Association for Artificial Fish Culture, to which 

 the establishment belonged, owned two large lakes, the Hiuter Lake and 

 the Waller Lake. Impregnated eggs and young fry from this establish- 

 ment were sent far and near, and whatever young fry could not be sold 

 were placed in ponds, lakes, and other open waters. In the beginning, 

 when the interest in artificial fish-culture was still at its height, the estab- 



