86 ARTIFICIAL REPROBUCTION OF FISHES. 



ON THE ARTIFICIAL REPRODUCTION OF FISHES. 



BY THEODATUS GARLICK, M. D. 



Read before the Cleveland Academy of Natural Science, February 14, 1854. 



The successful experiments of Messrs. Remy and Gehin, 

 of France, in the artificial reproduction of certain kinds of 

 fishes, will, without doubt, be repeatedly made in this and 

 other countries, and with the same satisfactory results. 



The immense advantages resulting from this discovery, 

 particularly in countries abounding with such a variety and 

 extent of inland waters as our own, can hardly be estimated. 



Early in the spring of last year. Prof. H. A. Ackley and 

 myself determined to make the experiment of artificially 

 breeding fishes. After some deliberation, we determined 

 to select the speckled trout, {Salmo fontanalis^) for our 

 first experiment. Accordingly, in the month of August 

 last, I started for the Saut Ste. Marie, with the purpose of 

 obtaining the parent fishes, while Prof. Ackley was pre- 

 j)aring a suitable place for their reception, by building a 

 dam across a very fine large spring of water on his farm, 

 some two miles from this city. 



There was no difficulty in capturing as many as I desired, 

 but it was cxuite another kind of sport to transport them 

 alive a distance of near six hundred miles. After various 

 vexations, among which was the loss of the first shipment, 

 we succeeded in getting down three lots, in all about one 

 hundred and fifty, in fine condition, and lodged them safely 

 in their new home, where they seemed as happy and as 

 sportive as they were in the beautiful blue waters of Lake 

 Superior. 



In the month of September I made a trip to Port Stanley, 

 Canada, for another lot, and succeeded in getting home 

 about forty more specimens, constituting, certainly, a very 

 fair beginning to our enterprise. 



We did not, however, expect to rear any young fishes 

 this season, for we supposed the vicissitudes they were 



