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STATISTICS OF HUNINGUE. 



[CJIAP. III. 



expected that by and by the assistants at Huningue will be as 

 successful with this fish as they are with all others. Even 

 allowing for a very considerable loss in the artificially-mani- 

 pulated ova and it is thought that two-thirds at least of the 

 eggs of this fish are in some way lost it is certain that 

 the artificial system of protection is immensely more produc- 

 tive in fish than the natural one, for it has been said, in refer- 

 ence especially to the salmon of the river Tay, that hardly one 

 in a thousand of the eggs ever reaches to maturity as a proper 

 table-fish, such is the enormous destruction of eggs and young 

 fry ; and the percentage of destruction in Catholic countries is 

 greatly larger, because during the fast-days enjoined by the 

 church fish must be obtained. 



Up to the season of 1863-64 the total number of fresh-water 

 fish-eggs distributed from Huningue was far above 110,000,000, 

 and nearly the half of these were of the finer kinds of fish, 

 there being no less than 41,000,000 of eggs of salmon and trout. 



I have complied a tabular statement, which I insert at 

 this place, of the number of fish-eggs collected and distributed 

 at Huniiigue for the two years previous to my visit : 



1860-61. 



Destination of the Ova despatched from tlie Establishment. 



278 demands for establishments in 70 departments of France, and 29 demands from 

 establishments in Belgium, Switzerland, Bavaria, and Wurtemberg. 



