CHAPTER III. 



CHIEFLY HISTORICAL. 



Frank Buckland His prophecies Their fulfilment Troutdale Fishery 

 Introduction of black bass and American trout Solway Fishery commenced Its 

 progress Nocturnal adventures Discovery in Germany by Golstein Jacobi 

 Gehin and Remy M. Coste Hiiningen Gremaz German Progress. 



[ ITERATURE tells us of the fish culture of the olden times, 

 the esteem in which fish were held by the ancient Greeks and 

 Romans, the ponds of the monks in Great Britain, and how the 

 Chinese ingeniously collect the spawn of fishes on bundles of 

 sticks and mats placed in the water, and how it is sold in their 

 markets. On some parts of the Continent, too, fish are taken 

 alive to market, and those which are not sold are taken back and 

 returned to their pond living and well. 



As a pioneer of fish culture in this country there is no more 

 honoured name than that of the late lamented Frank Buckland. 

 How well I remember, some thirty years ago, listening to his talk 

 about trout and salmon, and their ova, and reading his book on 

 " Fish Hatching," published in 1863. More than a quarter of a 

 century has rolled away since those days, and it is exceedingly 

 interesting to look back and see how largely the work has 

 developed since that time, often progressing under considerable 

 difficulties, until it has reached its present magnitude. 



Frank Buckland said of fish culture that it promised " to be 

 eventually the origin or increase of revenue to private individuals, 

 a source of national wealth, and certainly a great boon to the 

 public in general." 



The first portion of the prophecy has been fulfilled ; the 

 second is only waiting to be so, as soon as our Government will 



