48 REPORT ON ARTIFICIAL FISH-qULTURE. 



To establish after a regular fashion this 

 branch of production, there should be at least 

 three streamlets or brooks, for the fish to be 

 changed during three years, new ones being 

 placed in them as fast as exhausted. 



Unhappily Messrs. Gehin and Remy have not 

 at their disposal the necessary funds to com- 

 plete this work. They have obtained the grant 

 of a fish-pond for this purpose, and bought an- 

 other for 800 francs; but now their pecuniary 

 means are gone, and if sir, under your kind pro- 

 tection, they do not get some help from Gov- 

 ernment, I fear it will be impossible for them 

 to pursue the trials so satisfactorily commenced. 



The labors of Messrs. Gehin & Remy appear 

 to me the more worthy of encouragement, as 

 success can afford but little profit to such devo- 

 ted and active men, but will contribute to increase 

 the alimentary resources commanded by people on 

 the banks of streams. Only in considering fishe- 

 ries as works of public utility, and causing them 

 to be executed by the State, can we hope to 

 give real importance to our river fisheries; but 

 in applying a small sum to this end, we will 

 arrive, I have no doubt, at important results for 

 the country. 



If the fish-breeding practiced by Messrs. Gehin 

 & Remy were only applicable to trout and to 



