CHAPTER III. 



FISH CULTURE. 



Antiquity of Pisciculture Italian Fish-Culture Sergius Grata Re-discovery 

 of the Art Gehin and Remy Jacobi Shaw of Drumlanrig The Ettrick 

 Shepherd Scientific and Commercial Pisciculture A Trip to Huningue 

 Tourist Talk about Fish Bale Huningue described The Water Supply 

 Modits Opcrandi at Huningue Packing Fish Eggs An Important Ques- 

 tion Artificial Spawning Danube Salmon Statistics of Huningue 

 Plan of a Suite of Ponds M. De Galbert's Establishment-Practical 

 Nature of Pisciculture Turtle-Culture Best Kinds of Fish to Rear- 

 Pisciculture in Germany Storm ontfield Salmon- Breeding Ponds Design 

 for a Suite of Salmon- Ponds Statistics of Stormontfield Acclimatisation 

 of Fish The Australian Experiment Introduction of the Silurus glaiiis. 



PISCICULTUEE may be briefly described as tlie art of 

 fecundating and hatching fish-eggs, and of nursing young 

 fish under protection till they are of an age to take care of 

 themselves. 



The art of pisciculture is almost as old as civilisation 

 itself. We read of its having been practised in the empire 

 of China for many centuries, and we also know that it was 

 much thought of in the palmy days of ancient Italy, when 

 expensively-fed fish of all kinds were a necessity of the 

 wonderful banquets given by wealthy Eomans and Neapolitans. 

 There is still in China a large trade in fish-eggs, and boats 

 may be seen containing men who gather the spawn in various 

 rivers, and then carry it into the interior of the country for 

 sale, where the young fish are reared in great flocks or shoals 



