78 THE FISHERIES. 



THE ARTIFICIAL PROPAGATION OF FISH: 



TO WHICH IS A]!^NEXED, A SHORT SURVEY OF THE RESOURCES, ASD 

 POLITICAL PROSPECTS OF IRELAND. 



In the preceding article, the subject of the Fisheries 

 was examined into at large, in connexion with the 

 measure then submitted to the Legislature, for the 

 amendment of the fishery laws. In the present 

 article, the intention is, merely to investigate a col- 

 lateral branch of the subject ; we mean that relating 

 to the artificial propagation of fish, — a subject which 

 now occupies a good deal of the public attention, and 

 appears to be well deserving of a careful considera- 

 tion. The French Government has recently issued 

 a commission to examine and report upon this mat- 

 ter, preparatory to a more ample development, by 

 artificial means, of the fisheries on the French coast. 

 It is proposed, therefore, in the present article, to 

 make a few observations upon this novel, and some- 

 what interesting process. 



It would be premature and unfair to assert, and 



