194 FISH HATCHING. 



pleasure to tourists, and become a fertile 

 source of profit to the community. 



At least 659,000 salmon ova were col- 

 lected, impregnated, and transported into 

 these rivers in December, 1861, from the 

 adjoining streams of Claregalway, where the 

 parent fish are found in great abundance. 

 The process of collecting the ova or egg of 

 the parent fish, as heretofore, has been 

 entrusted to that eminent pisciculturist Mr. 

 Eamsbottom. The operation is very simple, 

 and perfectly harmless to the parent fish. 



In order to show how easily the operation 

 of propagation may be performed, Mr. Eams- 

 bottom procured at Abbey, in four hours, 

 over 170,000 ova. The 659,000 salmon 

 eggs which he procured were transported 

 and deposited in gravel beds selected for the 



