I XTRODUCTION. 



AVING enjoyed the privilege of perusing the following 

 pages before publication, I have great pleasure in complying 

 with the Author's request to introduce his work with a 

 few remarks. 



The circumstance that the year of the birth of this work 

 coincides with that of the Great International -Fisheries Exhibition in 

 London, cannot fail to attract a greater amount of attention than any words 

 of mine could secure. For, although it relates to a district, the Fauna 

 and Fishing interests of which are in great measure foreign to those of 

 the countries in whose language it is written, it will be favourably 

 received as one of the contributions which help to accomplish the very 

 objects aimed at by the promoters of the International Exhibition. It 

 will be found to give much practical information applicable to conditions 

 in this country, and, therefore, valuable to those who have British Fishing 

 interests at heart. Pisciculturists will have their attention drawn to the 

 plan practised by Italians, viz., to rear fry of marine fishes, such as Red 

 and Grey .Mullets, Flat-fishes, Eels, &c, in enclosed waters to a marketable 

 size ; a practice yielding direct and immediate profits, and advocated by 

 myself for the last twenty years. To the great number of persons who 

 annually leave these shores for the Mediterranean in quest of sport and 



