to the support of the artificial hatching and distri- 

 bution of some of the most important and valuable 

 kinds of fish. In older countries, as in Europe, 

 attention has been now for many years directed to 

 the systematic raising of fish for the market. In 

 Italy and Egypt the art of pisciculture dates from 

 a most remote antiquity. 



With the Chinese, owing to the dense popula- 

 tion, and the extended water territory of China, the 

 raising of fish forms a very common and important 

 branch of industry. Pisciculture, as now carried on, 

 originated with the French, being introduced by M 

 Remy, a fisherman, whose means of support was 

 fishing in the streams of La Bresse, in the Vosges. 



It was the great waste of eefpfs observed to be 

 attendant upon the natural breeding of fish that led 

 M Remy to experiment upon an artificial method 

 of treating the ova, with a view to restocking the 

 streams of his native district. • 



His success at once attracted the attention of 

 many of the leading men of the country ; prizes and 

 preferment were the fisherman's, and his enterprise 

 became the object of governmental patronage. 

 Thus in a period of little over twenty years artificial 

 fish culture has so developed in France that an im- 

 mense establishment has been put in operation at 

 Huningue, on the Rhine, at which millions of eggs 

 are annually received, and from which, after hatch- 

 ing, the young fish are distributed to Germany, 

 Spain, England and other countries throughout the 

 Continent. 



The total number of all kinds of fish sent out 



