378 Fisuwwe w American WaArERs, 
CHAPTER V. 
FISH PROPAGATION ASSISTED BY ART. 
As fish-culture assisted by art has become a business of 
magnitude in France, and in England increased the revenue 
from salmon-waters over a hundred per cent.,* and as the 
Northern and Eastern rivers and lakes of the United States 
are well adapted to the rapid increase of the genus Salmo, 
being wooded, shaded, and fed by living springs,t what excuse 
is there for longer delay in restocking the rivers which used 
to teem with salmon and trout, and stocking anew those 
many waters wherein fishes of the genus Salmo would thrive ? 
It is true, the inhabitants of the New England States are 
hopefully in earnest, and anxious to stock and protect their 
salmon and trout waters, and have appointed a competent 
Fisheries’ Commission, including the following gentlemen : 
Maine—Charles G. Atkins, Augusta; N. W. Foster, East 
Machias. : 
New Hampshire—Von. iI. A. Bellows (chairman), Concord; 
W. A. Sanborn, Weir’s. 
Vermont—Prot: A. D, Hagar, Proctorsville ; Hon. Charles 
Barrett, Grafton. 
Massachusetts—Alfred K. Field, Greenfield ; Theodore Ly- 
man (secretary), Brookline. 
Connecticu-—H. Woodward, Middletown; James Rankin, 
Old Saybrook. 
But this question is equally applicable to the State of New 
* The fishing rental of the Tay in 1852 was less than $40,000 ; in 1864 it 
had risen to $75,000, and this year it is over $100,000. 
+ ‘Let any one look at the map of New England, with its thousands lakes 
and rivers, and imagine what riches ought to dwell in those waters.” —N. E. 
Fisheries’ Report. 
