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AMERICAN FISH CULTUKB. 



althotigli others will be interested in it to some extent. 

 The object of it is, to supply salmon spawn and young sal- 

 mon for stocking tbe American rivers. The present plan 

 is to collect just before the spawning season, as many live 

 salmon as possible, in a large enclosure provided with arti- 

 ficial spawning-beds, and to take the spawn from the parent 

 fish, after the manner that trout spawn are taken. 



" The eggs will be kept at the Miramichi until old 

 enough for transportation, when they will be brought to 

 headquarters at Charlestown, and placed in the hatching- 

 beds, there to be hatched. 



"There are at present thirty -two troughs, each twenty 

 feet in length, prepared to receive the salmon ova, with 

 provision for more if needed. These hatching-troughs are 

 in a building made for the purpose, sixty feet by twenty- 

 seven wide. The troughs will be able to receive 2000 ova 

 to the foot. The spawn will be ready to transport from the 

 Miramichi about twenty days after being taken, and will be 

 ready for the second transportation any time after that." 



