CONTENTS. 



INTRODUCTORY CHAPTER. 



fAOE 



THE ORIGIN AND PROGRESS OF PISCICULTURE 1 



Chinese Fish Culture ib. 



Fish Culture amongst the Romans 2 



The Lucrine Lake 3 



Mediaeval Fish Culture : Dom Pinchon 4 



Jacobi's Method 5 



Gehin and Remy 6 



Mons. Coste Huningue 7 



Description of Huningue and its Apparatus 8 



Table of the Fish treated of 15 



CHAPTER I. 



R INLAND FISHERIES 16 



The Salmon and its Scarcity ib. 



Natural History of the Salmon 18 



Exportation of Foul Fish to France 20 



Peculiarity of Salmon in American Lakes 21 



The Salmon in the Egg and Smolt State 22 



The Enemies of the Ova and Fry 25 



The Advantages of Artificial Incubation 27 



Piscicultural Operations in Great Britain 28 



Vermin found in Gravel, &c 29 



Alluvial Deposits *...*.. 30 



Grayling Spawn 31 



