258 BULLETIN OF THE UNITED STATES FI9II COMMISSION. 



SO.-FRV PliAIVTED I.-V ROVEICii OF BKI^UIUlTl IN 1S§6.* 



[Extracted from tlie report of the Comruissiou ou Fish-Culture to the Minister of Ag- 

 riculture, Industry, and Public Works.] 



The pluutiugs of fry made iu 18SG in the tributaries of the Meuse 

 Eiver have been entirely successful. The following has been the ex- 

 tent of these operations : 



Fry were planted as follows : 



Kind. 



.Salmon (Salmo solar Lin.) 



Trout (Trvttafario Lin.) 



Lnki' tiout (TnittalacustrisLiD.) 



Thi/maUus rexilUfcr Ag 



Sabno salvelinus Lin 



Total 



Number. 



63, 00') 



217, l)<)0 



30, 000 



:)0, ooo 



12, OOi) 



3 J2, 000 



They were distributed as follows 



Where distributed. 



Kiver Semois and tributaries , 



Do 



i;ivcr Lesso and tributaries . . 



Do 



Do , 



Do , 



Kiver Molignee 



Kiver Bocri 



Ki^er Ourthe and tributaries 



Do 



Do 



River Gulpe 



liivor Dee k ( Voeren) 



lliver Sn!i(ire 



The Villancour brook 



Lake Gilei)pe 



Do 



Kind. 



Trout 



Thymallus vexillifer. 



Saiiiion 



Trout. 



Lake trout 



Thymallus vexiUifcr. 

 Thymallus vexillifer. 



Trout 



Salmon 



Trout 



Thymallus vexillifer. 



Trout ■.... 



do 



do 



do 



Lake trout 



Salmo salvehnus 



Kumber. 



51,000 

 9, 000 

 0, 000 



r.7, 000 



12, (100 

 0, 000 



0, 000 



(i, 000 

 57, (100 

 03, 000 



6, 000 

 ]!), 000 



3, 000 



6, 000 

 1 2, 000 

 18, 000 

 12, 000 



Since 1885, when the Government undertook to stock the Belgium 

 rivers, there have been planted, in all, in the tributaries of the Meuse, 

 and in Lake Gileppe 737,000 young of salmonoids. 



The plantings of young fish have been arranged in such a manner 

 that in 181)0, when the contract between the Government and the par- 

 ties furnishing the young fish expires, all the tributaries of the Meuse 

 which are to be stocked, will have received the kind and number of fish 

 adapted to the nature of their water. But the quantity of young fish 

 to be furnislied v/ithin this period (about 1,000,000) is not sufficient to 

 stock the rivers as thoroughly as it should be done. The question 

 therefore arises, whether it is not jjossible to produce a certain quan- 

 tity of young fish on the spot. For this purpose the keepers of waters 



* " Rapport siir les devcrsemenis (falcvivscn 188C." Brussels, 1886. 

 the Frcuch by llKitMAN Jacojjson. 



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