.'Inicricaii I'islicries Society 



Year. Salmo salar Salnio initla' Salnidsalvi 



The number of private fish hatcheries in Russia does not 

 exceed 10 to 12. They handle the same species as the 

 government stations, but their output is n<_)t kn()\\n. Prac- 

 tical results from both private and government work are 

 reported to be insignificant. American rainbow trout have 

 been introduced in Kie\' from Germany, catfish in Nikolsk 

 for aquarium culture, and large-mouth black Ijass in limited 

 numbers in a few places. 



FISH CULTURE AND FISHING IN GERMANY. 



Germany undoubtedly leads all luu'opean countries in 

 the extent of its fish-cultural work. Statistics collected in 

 1895 show that in the entire German empire there were at 

 that time 12.623 persons engaged in inland fisheries and 

 fish culture, and 71 per cent of these, or 8,956, made this 

 their principal occupation. 



Fish culture in Germany is mainly a matter of private 

 enterprise, and the sale of fish for food is the ultimate 

 source of the fish culturist's income and su])port. Many 

 districts in Germany are thickly sprinkled witli natural 

 lakes, which are largely utilized, and there is a \'ery great 

 area of artificial ponds. 



The fishes cultix'ated belong to many species, grouped 

 in several families, mainly the Salmonidce and Cyprinida\ 

 Two leading fish journals, in their issues of January. 1*^09. 

 contained the advertisements of lOv^ ])ersons or firms offer- 

 ing for sale young fish and eggs for stocking ])urposes : 9 

 of them oft'ered Salmonicke in general; 54 specified iuu'o- 

 pean brook trout; 41 American l;)rook trout; 2 sea trout; 

 2 lake trout; 43 rainlx^w trout; 4 purple trout; 3 European 

 saibling ; 1 coregonoids ; 4 grayling ; 1 Danube salmon ; 34 

 carp; 24 tench; 7 goldfish; 2 higoi (a kind of Japanese 



