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The number and kinds of iish that are treated are 

 increasing daily. The Chinese probably confined their 

 efforts to carp. We began on salmon. Then the effort 

 was extended to trout, then to shad, to salmon trout, to 

 whitelish, to striped bass, to sturgeon, to smelt, to grayling 

 and indirectly to black bass, strawberry bass, oswego bass, 

 pike perch, yellow perch, cattish, oysters, lobsters, gold 

 fish, and other fresh water fishes, and we may confidently 

 expect in time, to assist nature in multiplying all or 

 nearly all the fishes that live on our coast or in our lakes 

 and rivers. Not a year passes but some new and valuable 

 discovery is made, and the importance and interest of 

 fish culture increases with every development. Already 

 twenty four states and territories have appointed com- 

 missioners to protect and develop their fisheries while 

 the United States have established a Fishery Commis- 

 sion for the entire Union. The systems followed in the 

 United States and abroad, even in modern Europe are 

 wholly different. The famous establishment at Huenin- 

 guen, which having been founded by France, came through 

 the fortune of war under the dominion of Germany is 

 conducted on a plan that seems to us less effective and 

 more wasteful that is adopted here. There awards are 

 offered for ripe fish, which are secured and kept alive by 

 individuals in any part of the country, and information of 

 the fact is sent to the authorities at Hueninguen, who 

 dispatch an expert to take the roe and melt which are then 

 hatched at that establishment under government care ; 

 the living fry being distributed again at government 

 expense. In this operation there is more labor and less 

 profit than^there should be. There is danger of depleting 

 the waters from which the eggs are taken, and while cer- 

 tain streams are replenished others may be impoverished. 

 With us mature trout are kept for the express purpose 



