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Establishments of fish-culture have been instituted, but the results 

 have been nil. The alevins, consiorned at too tender an aoe to the 

 waters that it was intended to restock, were sacrificed to a certain 

 death, and the establishment of Huningue, which has employed this 

 method for many years without any success in replenishing our waters, 

 in spite of the production of thousands of millions of fry, offers con- 

 clusive evidence. A great expenditure of money is required to bring 

 the alevins to an aoe at which their future would no longer be an 

 uncertainty, that is to say, the period of their existence at which they 

 are strong enough to look after themselves. Young fishes reared in 

 the tanks of the aquarium, fed at regular hours, not being accustomed 

 in their early days to seek their food or to guard against their enemies, 

 could not be as capable of resistance or as likely to thrive as those 

 hatched under natural conditions. 



In my opinion, the most effective form of pisciculture is that which 

 encourages the natural reproduction of fishes, and artificial methods of 

 hatching will, I think, never be more than makeshifts, inferior in their 

 results to those favoured with the inexhaustible generosity of nature. 



A study of the foreign enactments that have resulted among our 

 neighbours in a surplus supply so great as almost to suffice our market, 

 shows that the most efficacious plan adopted by their governments has 

 been the passing of an Act empowering the State to collect, in the 

 form of licences, taxes on nets, giving permits to fish as we in France 

 have permits to shoot. 



It would obviously be good logic to borrow some of the laws of 

 our neighbours, whose fisheries are in so satisfactory a condition. 

 The chief element of their success has been the effective and strict 



