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Government has been called to fishculture work, and I am 
informed that negotiations are being made to establish a 
special fishculturist school at the Gremaz fish hatchery, 
which belongs to M. Lugrin, inventor of the method of 
propagating artificially live food for fish fry. . 
Italy has only recently begun fishcultural work under 
the control of the Government, which has appropriated 
32,000 liras ($6,500) for the construction of a large fish 
hatchery at Brescia, now in operation, and has opened an- 
other small one at Rome. 
The Netherlands Government appropriates only 5,000 
gulden ($2,084) for the salmon fry planted in the Rhine 
River. No appropriation is made by the Austria-Hungary 
Government, the fishculture work being carried on by 
private initiative of landlords and associations. 
The same remarks must be made in regard to Great 
Britain, with the single exception of Scotland, the fishery 
board of which erected last summer a salt-water fish hatch- 
ery at Dunbar; no special appropriation was made for this 
purpose, the expenses having been covered by money as- 
signed for scientific investigation (£1,800 yearly). 
The Swedish Government contributes to some extent to 
the improvement of the fishery industries in its country, 
having a yearly appropriation of 47,000 kr. ($13,155), but 
that does not include any expense of fishculture work in 
particular. 
And finally Russia has an appropriation of $2,800, which 
is, in comparison with its area, quite insignificant. That 
includes 3,000 roubles for maintaining one governmental 
fish hatchery at Nicholsk, Government of Novgorod, 
which was founded by the well-known Russian fisheultur- 
ist, Mr. Vladimir Wrasky, the inventor of the so-called 
Russian or dry method of impregnation, and 5,000 Finnish 
marks of subsidy to the Fishery Society of Finland. 
When we compare the total amount of money spent for 
fishculture work by all European countries ($37,032.50) 
