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it is likely to become in the United States with 

 respect to many fresh-water fishes. In the latter 

 country the culture of these species appears to be 

 highly successful, and it can even be compared 

 with the introduction of the rabbit into Australia, 

 for in some cases fish-culture has been attended 

 with pernicious results.^ But it must be repeated 

 that we cannot justifiably utilise the unequivocal 

 success which has attended fresh-water pisciculture 

 as an argument in favour of the utility of what is 

 a very different and a much more difficult thing, 

 viz. marine pisciculture. Indeed, we can hardly 

 say that the utility of the artificial culture of a 

 British anadromous fish like the salmon is beyond 

 question.^ 



Marine fish-culture, as a means of restoring the 

 productivity of an impoverished fishing ground, 

 cannot be said to have emerged from the purely 

 experimental stage in Great Britain. The only 

 marine fish hatcheries at present in existence in 

 our country are those of the Scottish Fishery Board 

 at Aberdeen, the Lancashire and Western Sea- 

 Fisheries Committee at Piel, and the Manx 

 Fishery Board at Port Erin. None of these 

 institutions has received the financial support 

 necessary for developing them to the extent 



1 See Reports of the Inspectors of Salmon Fisheries for England 

 and Wales for 1897 and 1898, pp. 14 and 6 respectively. 



^ See Report of the Royal Commission on the Salmon Fisheries, 

 i9°2, P- 55 [Cd. 1188]. 



