FISHES AND FISHING. 69 



Le Societe d'Emulation of Yosges, France, have, 

 Bince 1 844, awarded medals to two fishermen of La- 

 brasse, named G^tin and Eeni, for having artificially 

 hatched the eggs of trout ; they have five to six mil- 

 lions of these fish, from one to three years old, in waters 

 belonging to themselves ; and they say that a trout 

 of two years old weighs about four ounces and a half, 

 and at three years, about nine ounces. Mr. Relph, 

 who has been engaged in the salmon fishery above 

 fifty years, states salmon grow under favourable cir- 

 cumstances about an ounce per week. — ** Edinburgh 

 Journal of ITatural History," Dec. 1839, p. 40. 



These two persons in France, have extended their 

 methods of hatching the eggs of trout, to those of 

 salmon, carp, pike, tench, and perch, whereby they 

 have not only restocked many rivers, but lakes, and 

 rivers in which, before, there were no fish, are now 

 teeming with them. 



The French Government have properly, and highly 

 to their honour, set the example to other governments, 

 by taking up this interesting subject, as a matter of 

 great national importance, inasmuch as it will be a 

 means of supplying the public through the medium of 



"fights of the stickleback," in " Humphrey's River Garden," 

 js nearly a copy verbatim of that former publication — a little 



more dressed out in point of language. Humphrey does not 



acknowledge whence he copied this. 



