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STATISTICAL REVIEW OF FISHCULTURE IN 
EUROPE AND NORTH AMERICA. 
BY N,. BORODINE, 
Delegate of the Russian Association of Pisciculture and Fisheries. 
International exhibitions give a good opportunity to 
reckon up the work done in different branches of human 
activity, and I thought it opportune to do the same thing 
with regard to the most recent industry—fishculture. 
During the last two years I have made a special study 
of fishculture outside of my country, and visited many 
hatcheries of importance in Europe and North America. 
I was thus enabled to collect some material, which is 
summarized in the following short review. The figures of 
North America were taken from the reports of the United 
States Fish Commission, State Fish Commissions, annual 
reports of the Ministry of Marine and Fisheries of the 
Dominion of Canada, and from the report of the Superin- 
tendent of Fisheries of Newfoundland. Those reports, 
regularly issued, are uniform, but they do not include any 
information about private fish hatcheries. For Europe, 
the figures have been taken from scattered information in 
special literature, from official information furnished by 
the respective Governments, and private information from 
the proprietors of fish hatcheries which I visited person- 
ally. 
I do not consider the following figures as absolutely ex- 
act; on the contrary, I am sure that one of them, for want 
of regular reports, are less than reality. Nevertheless, I 
believe that a review of figures already known upon this 
matter may have some interest. Concluding these intro- 
ductory remarks, I ought to say that I do not deal in this 
paper with pond culture, the only object of comparison 
being the hatching of fish in the establishments specially 
constructed for that purpose. 
The following table gives an idea of the number of fish 
