FISH-CULTURE. 



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or size of our food fishes is fish-culture. Thus the Fishery Board 

 for Scotland, which is now empowered to cany out experiments 

 on the effects, destructive or otherwise, of different modes of fish- 

 ing, is a Government fish-cultural department of the first import- 

 ance. It is far more extensive in its powers and more practical in 

 its work than any department of Fisheries in any other country in 

 the world. 



TABLE OF OVA, SEASON 1874-75. 



Above is the return of eggs spawned in the autumn of 1874. 

 Of S.fario, 6540 ova were taken; of sea-trout, 3152 ova; of Loch 

 Leven trout, 15,513 ova; making a total of 25,205 ova, of which 

 4189 ova were used experimentally, 3182 being hybridised. 



