#78 FISHING IN AMERICAN WATEKS. 



CHAPTER V. 



FISH PROPAGATION ASSISTED BY ART. 



As fish-culture assisted by art has become a business of 

 magnitude in France, and in England increased the revenue 

 from salmon-waters over a hundred per cent.,* and as the 

 Northern and Eastern rivers and lakes of the United States 

 are well adapted to the rapid increase of the genus Salmo, 

 being wooded, shaded, and fed by living springs,! what excuse 

 is there for longer delay in restocking the rivers which used 

 to teem with salmon and trout, and stocking anew those 

 many waters wherein fishes of the genus Salmo would thrive ? 

 It is* true, the inhabitants of the New England States are 

 hopefully in earnest, and anxious to stock and protect their 

 salmon and trout waters, and have appointed a competent 

 Fisheries' Commission, including the following gentlemen : 



Maine Charles G. Atkins, Augusta ; N. W. Foster, East 

 Machias. 



New Hampshire Hon. H. A. Bellows (chairman), Concord; 

 W. A. Sanborn, Weir's. 



Vermont Prof. A. D. Hagar, Proctorsville ; Hon. Charles 

 Barrett, Grafton. 



Massachusetts Alfred K. Field, Greenfield ; Theodore Ly- 

 man (secretary), Brookline. 



Connecticut H. Woodward, Middletown ; James Rankin, 

 Old Saybrook. 



But this question is equally applicable to the State of New 



* The fishing rental of the Tay in 1852 was less than $40,000 ; in 1864 it 

 had risen to $75,000, and this year it is over $100,000. 



t " Let any one look at the map of New England, with its thousands lakes 

 and rivers, and imagine what riches ought to dwell in those waters." N. E. 

 Fisheries' Report. 



