CHAPTER I. 



ARTIFICIAL PROPAGATION OF CERTAIN KINDS OF FISH. 



SHORTLY after the discoveries of Messrs. Remy & 

 Gehen had been communicated to the French Acad- 

 emy of Sciences at Paris, by Dr. Haxo, the French 

 Government, viewing the discoveries in a favorable 

 light, appropriated thirty thousand francs, ($6,000,) 

 and appointed a committee consisting of two per- 

 sons, namely Messrs. Berthot & Detzem engineers 

 of the Rhine and Rhone canal to erect a Govern- 

 ment establishment for the artificial culture of fish 

 at Huningen. The establishment did not go into 

 operation until 1852, some three years after the dis- 

 covery. 



The establishment, during the first six months 

 of its operation, produced by artificial fecundation 

 over a million and a half of living fish, of which 

 about six hundred thousand were trout and salmon. 



With these facts before us, it should not be sur- 

 prising that the subject is attracting the attention 

 of some of the best minds in our own country; 

 more especially when we consider the impoverished 

 condition of our rivers and streams, many of which 

 are susceptible of being inhabited by innumerable 

 salmon and trout, and since a replenishment is 

 now no longer problematical. 

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