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We have this season the prospect of a very- 

 large produce of ova and young fish, both in 

 the ponds, and in the Plenty river adjoining, 

 as well as in the other tributaries of the Der- 

 went. The rills connected with the ponds, 

 and the bed of the Plenty for several miles of 

 its course, may be seen thickly studded with 

 the redds of the fish, in which will be found, I 

 doubt not, the whole three species of salmonidse 

 in vast numbers. The Plenty is but one of 

 the many fine streams connected with the 

 Derwent, in which it is scarcely to be ques- 

 tioned that the same promising state of things 

 at this moment exists. The spectacle is one 

 that would delight you to behold." 



The fish-breeding establishment of Stor- 

 montfield on the Tay, and that at Oughterard 

 in Galway, have produced valuable results. 

 Norway and Sweden have their fish-hatching 

 establishments ; Eussia and Denmark have 

 theirs at Nikolskoi and Viborg. Germany has 

 now obtained Huningue, and Austria has a 

 piscicultural establishment at Salzburg. Italy 

 has for ages cultivated her lagoons at Comac- 

 chio and elsewhere. While all these nations 

 have learned the value and profit to be realized 



