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coast have been successfully carried across the continent by the overland 

 route, and planted in those of the Pacific coast, and vice versa. Through 

 the praiseworthy efforts of Prof. Baird and Livingston Stone, the salmon 

 of the Pacific coast are being sown broadcast into the streams of the 

 Eastern States of the Union. In Canada, also, there has been introduced 

 certain hitherto unknown fishes from Britain. These efforts, successful 

 in their application, are only the forerunners of what will y&i be largely 

 brought about through the study of practical fish culture. And no doubt 

 when the science becomes more generally diffused, the importation and 

 exportation of the more valuable kinds of fishes wMll form no inconsidei-*- 

 able traflfic between countries whose interests may require an improvement 

 in that branch of commerce. 



France has always taken a very great interest in the artificial propaga- 

 tion of fish as an easy means of producing cheap food for her people. 

 The immense grounds which were laid out, and the buildings w4iich were 

 erected at Hunningue, are strong and convincing evidences of this fact. 

 And although b}- the fate of war the province in which the large French 

 piscicultural works were established was ceded to Prussia, she has since 

 that period commenced again the founding of another fish breeding 

 establishment in another portion of her territory. Prussia is also 

 extending the works which came into her hands b}- the act of cession. 



In Great Britain the enterprise has been entered into with great zeal, 

 and with marked success, large fortunes having been amassed by indi- 

 viduals from the increased productions of old fishery grounds through 

 artificial methods of propagation. In other countries of Europe, and in 

 Asia, fish culture is now successfully adopted also ; and throughout almost 

 the whole of the old world the science is making its beneficial eflfects felt 

 by the masses of the people in the greater supply of wholesome food. 



Nothing, however, has given a stronger impetus to fish culture at the 

 present time than the hearty and zealous manner in which the local 

 legislatures of many of the States, as well as the Federal Government of 

 America, have entered into the work of encouraging the growth and 

 improvement of the piscine w^ealth within their territories. Not onh* 

 have large grants of money been made by individual States to assist 

 their fishery- commissioners in restocking depleted waters, but the Federal 

 Government at Washington makes very liberal grants fiom the treasur}^ 

 to aid in what has been considered a great national work. 



As a result of the united eflTorts of the State legislatures and General 

 Government, a large salmon breeding establishment has been built in 

 Maine, under the superintendence of Mr. Atkins, which has admirably 

 answered the purpose for which it was constructed, and quite equal to the 

 most sanguine expectations of its projectors. In like manner has the 



