CHAPTER V. 



REPORT ON ARTIFICIAL FISH-CULTURE, 



And on Stocking Barren and Impoverished Rivers with Fish arti- 

 ficially hatched. Made to the Minister of Commerce by M. 

 MILNE EDWARDS, Member of the Institute. 



IN 1850 the attention of the French Government 

 was called to the discovery of Messrs. Gehin and 

 Remy, and the Minister of Agriculture and Com- 

 merce appointed a member of the Academy, a dis- 

 tinguished savant, M. Milne-Edwards, to examine the 

 subject carefully and make a report. 



The following is his report; 



Sir : Owing to the interest which you feel in all 

 discoveries calculated to increase the alimentary 

 resources of the country, you desired to form a cor- 

 rect opinion of the attempts which for some time 

 have been made, whether in France or in England, 

 to ensure the multiplication of fish in ponds and 

 rivers, and to augment the value of products of 

 fisheries. 



You have done me the honor to submit this- 

 question to my examination, and have charged me 

 most particularly to render a complete account of 

 the results obtained by two fishermen, who followed 



