AMERICAN FISH CULTURE. 



CHAPTER I. 



INTRODUCTORY REMARKS ON FISH CULTURE. 



What it is. Its advantages over natural propagation. Time occu- 

 pied in hatching. Number of ova of different species. Conse- 

 quences of all the ova producing fish that would come to maturity. 

 Object of Fish Culture. Its antiquity. Practised by the Chinese 

 and Romans. Artificial propagation discovered by Dom Pinchon. 

 Eediscovered by M. Jacobi. Subsequent discovery of Joseph 

 Remy. Alleged discoverers. Experiments of Shaw and Young. 

 Patronage of the French government. Its effects on Scotch and 

 Irish rivers. Its use as an adjunct in restoring American rivers to 

 their former fecundity. Commissioners of fisheries appointed by 

 the New England States, and the States of New York and Pennsyl- 

 vania. Experiment in artificial propagation and hatching at Hoi- 

 yoke on the Connecticut. Experiments in trout breeding by Ste- 

 phen H. Ainsworth. Progress in trout culture. Fish culture in 

 France. 



IT may be asked, what is Fish Culture. The reply is, 

 that it is the propagation of fish by artificial means, and the 

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