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success. In France little or nothing was done, except by 

 Quatrefages, till we reach the two peasants, Remy and Gehin, 

 whose labours laid firm the foundation on which all subsequent 

 Pisciculturists have built. 



In 1849 the Academy of Sciences learned that a prize had 

 been granted in 1845 by the Society of the Vosges to two 

 fishermen of La Bresse, Remy and Gehin, for having fertilised 

 and artificially hatched eggs from trout, and for having raised 

 some five to six thousand trout from one to three years old, 

 which continued to thrive in the waters in which they were 

 confined. 



On investigation by the Academy, it was found that Remy 

 and Gehin (who came in later) had been led from conclusions 

 based entirely on their own observations (for " they are quite 

 unlettered and ignorant of the progress of the Natural Sciences ") 

 to employ with success methods rather similar, but superior, 

 to those of Jacobi. 



They had enormously decreased the high mortality by their 

 greatest and probably unique achievement, i.e. provision for 

 the fry of a natural food. This was produced by the simulta- 

 neous rearing of a smaller and non-cannibal species, and by 

 the collection in the enclosed streams or made waterways 

 into which the young trout were liberated of hundreds of 

 frogs, whose spawn afforded an excellent subsistence. 



Jacobi's and Remy's discovery was the parent of our 

 modern Pisciculture. The gear and apparatus, especially in 

 America, have been transformed. The methods of stripping, 

 of hatching, of feeding are enormously improved, with mortality 

 in eggs and fry incredibly reduced. 



From this account of their discoveries and from the nature 

 of the methods now in use, it is obvious that the suggestion 

 of Badham and others that the method of breeding fish 

 employed by modern Pisciculturists was practically that of 

 the Romans must go by the board. 



