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HISTORY OF FISH CULTURE. 



1850 — French Government appointed a Fish Commission. 



1850— Norwegian Parliament voted 3,000 thalers for the culture of 

 fish. 



1854 — Belgian Government organized a fish-breeding establishment 

 on the same principle as France. 



1856 — Massachusetts appointed a Fish Commission to inquire and 

 report; the result was, that in 1865 the State adopted the present sys- 

 tem and granted appropriations. 



1857 — Russia appointed a Fish Commission; the result of their 

 labor culminating in the establishment in 1862 of a government 

 breeding place in Finland, and by the year 1873 there were ten such 

 in that province. 



1860 — Russia also subsidized an extensive hatchery at Nicholasky, 

 in the Province of Novgorod. 



1865 — The State of New Hampshire sent commissioners to Canada 

 for salmon ova. From 1865 to 1870, the State expended some $23,000 

 for fish culture. 



1865 — The Austrian Government founded a fish hatchery at Saltz- 

 burg, and in 1873, every province in the empire was provided with 

 its own breeding establishments. 



1866 — The State of Pennsylvania organized a Fish Commission, 

 but no money was appropriated until the year 1873; but between the 

 years 1873 to 1880 inclusive, the amount given through State aid was, 

 for the purpose of public fish culture, nearly $100,000. 



1866 — The State of Connecticut appointed a Fishery Commission, 

 and appropriated for the purpose of public fish culture, from 1868 to 

 1880, $44,500. 



1866 — The Dominion of Canada established a Fishery Commission 

 with a large stafli" of officers, with ample funds at their command. 



1867 — The State of Maine appointed a Fish Commission, From 

 1867 to 1880, appropriations were made to the amount of $38,000. 



1868— The State of New York appointed a Commission of Fish- 

 eries, and from 1868 to 1879, expended the sum of $169,000. 



1870 — The State of California appointed a Commission of Fisheries, 

 and from 1870 to 1882, appropriated the sum of about $40,000. 



1870— The State of New Jersey appointed a Fishery Commission, 

 and from 1871 to 1880, the appropriations were about $30,000. 



1870 — Rhode Island appointed a Commission for Fish Culture, and 

 from 1871 to 1880, appropriated $10,000. 



1870 — Alabama appointed a Fish Commission. 



1871 — The Congress of the United States of America appointed a 

 Commission of Fish and Fisheries, for all the States of the Union, 

 with a full staff of officers having a knowledge of Fish Culture, and 

 up to 1880, the total sums placed at the disposal of the Commission 

 amounted to about $488,500. 



1871 — The American Fish Culturist Association organized, and in 

 1872 applied to Congress to authorize the United States Commission 

 to undertake the duty of restoring fish to the depleted rivers, and a 

 resolution was passed authorizing the United States Commission to 

 fulfill that duty. 



