SALMON-REARING AT STORMONTEIELD, 

 AND FISH CULTURE* 



WE have endeavoured to attract attention to the artifi- 

 cial rearing of fish, and especially of salmon. We had 

 frequent occasion to refer to the interesting experiment 

 in salmon-rearing at Stormontfield, about five miles 

 from Perth, on the banks of the Tay. We have now the 

 satisfaction of being able to refer all interested in pisci- 

 culture to an account of the manner in which it is being 

 carried out, and of the practical results. Mr Brown, 

 the author of the little work we refer to, has long de- 

 voted attention to the natural history of the salmon, 

 stimulated, he informs us, by the experiments of Mr 

 Shaw of Drumlanrig, from 1833 to 1838. Believing in 

 the common opinion that the parr was a fish sui generis, 

 which never attained a larger size than seven or eight 

 inches, Mr Brown resolved to put Mr Shaw's statements 

 to the test. Having, in February 1836, caught eigh- 



* ' The Natural History of the Salmon, as ascertained by the 

 recent Experiments in the Artificial Spawning and Hatching of the 

 Ova and Rearing of the Fry at Stormontfield, on the Tay.' By 

 William Brown, Perth. Glasgow : Thomas Murray and Son. 

 1862. 



' Fish Culture : A Practical Guide to the Modern System of 

 Breeding and Rearing Fish.' By Francis Francis. With numer- 

 ous Illustrations. London : Routledge. 1863. 



