20 AMERICAN FISH CULTURE. 



empire. Not only fish but oysters, crayfisli, and other 

 Crustacea are being multiplied by this new science. 



The discovery of Joseph Kemy has produced practical 

 results which did not follow those of his predecessors. This 

 French peasant, who gained a livelihood from the Moselle, its 

 tributaries, and other streams of his native district. La 

 Bresse, lamenting the sure extinction of the finer kinds of 

 fish; by long and anxious vigils became convinced of the 

 outer impregnation of the spawn and all the adverse vicissi- 

 tudes to which it and the young fry were exposed. His 

 experiments based on these observations were successful 

 beyond his anticipations, and in 1849, when his doings and 

 those of his companion Gehin were brought to the know- 

 ledge of 31. Coste, professor of Biology in the College of 

 France, improvements were made in the manner of hatch- 

 ing the ova, the patronage of the government was secured, 

 and the present establishment at Iluningue, and subse- 

 quently its branches, were inaugurated. The eifects of 

 liberal and judicious government patronage have not only 

 been spread over France, but its benefits have reached all 

 parts of enlightened Europe ; and our own country is now 

 resorting to this new science to restock it.^ exhausted 

 rivers, and adopting it as a bi'anch of industry. 



In a chapter devoted to the salmon I shall endeavor to 

 give a summary of what has been done in Scotland and 

 Ireland in cultivating that valuable fish. 



In this country, our utter disregard for the bounties of 

 nature so wonderfully lavished upon us. and our inordinate 

 rage for internal improvements, have caused our state gov- 



