150 SALMON-REARING AT STORMONTFIELD. 



ova for the purpose of artificial propagation in foreign 

 countries. Garibaldi met with a direct refusal ; and 

 compliance with an application from the French Gov- 

 ernment was evaded ! Our Scottish rivers might with 

 great advantage receive the ova of various species of 

 foreign fish. But how shall we preserve them, if we 

 anger their possessors by such pitiful displays of a lack 

 of international politeness ? This want of courtesy is 

 in marked contrast to the liberality of the French Gov- 

 ernment, in dispersing ova from their rearing establish- 

 ment at Huningue. Besides despatching annually mil- 

 lions of ova to the various rivers of France, large quanti- 

 ties are also sent abroad to various parts of Europe. 



This establishment, near the Ehine and Ehone Canal, 

 covers a space of about seventy acres, and is conducted 

 at an annual cost of 2200. It is calculated that twelve 

 live fish are produced for a penny. 



Mr Francis, whose ' Fish Culture ' we would com- 

 mend to the study of those interested in its subject, 

 bitterly laments the little attention which is bestowed 

 upon our national fisheries, and eloquently descants 

 upon their capabilities, especially when aided by the 

 resources of pisciculture " a science the workings and 

 effects of which have to be discovered, and in which 

 there are honours and profitable fame to be won." He 

 is sanguine that where the best species of fish can be 

 cultivated, water may yield a revenue very far exceed- 

 ing that of land. He asks what edible land animal 

 possesses the grilse's capability of reproducing 9000 of 

 its own size in less than two years ? Easy and inex- 

 pensive though pisciculture be, he observes that many 

 would willingly practise it, if they knew how to set 

 about it ; but they know not where to obtain fish spawn ; 

 nor can they find persons sufficiently instructed to take 

 spawn from the fish, or to set up apparatus for them, 

 because there are probably not half-a-dozen people in 

 this country who know how to do so. We agree with 

 him that in a country like ours, so fitted by nature for 



