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the Imperial Commissidh of the Univfirsal Exposition of Paris 

 in 1867, where it is expected the contributions resulting from 

 the fish culture in France will form an important feature. 

 The council of administration or directors under whose su- 

 pervision the exposition was holden, in their circular say : 

 " If we have borrowed from England the improved methods 

 of farming, it is to France that the English have come to 

 gain the very idea of water culture. So we may hope that 

 the imperial commission of the coming universal exposition 

 of Paris will think proper to make use of the exposition of 

 Arcachon, to arrive in 1867, in the section of fishery and 

 water culture, at the same remarkable result attained by 

 the Imperial Commission of the universal exposition of Lon- 

 don in 1862, for the section of agriculture." 



The experiment of fish culture has also been successfully 

 made in Great Britain. In a few instances streams that never 

 had these fish in them until the spawn were introduced and 

 fishways built, have become sources of wealth. 



The head waters of the Claregalway in Ireland was cut 

 off from the sea by a natural fall in the stream so that no 

 sea-fish were able to ascend to them. But a fish way has 

 been built and salmon spawn introduced, and the river af- 

 fords one of the best salmon fisheries in Great Britain. The 

 Eobe river that empties into the Lough Mask in Ireland had 

 no sea-fish in it till a fishway about two miles in length was 

 built over the natural obstruction in the stream, and salmon 

 ova were placed there and hatched. It now abounds in sal- 

 mon. 



The Tay river in Scotland formerly produced salmon, but 

 being unprotected by suitable laws and regulations they 

 became nearly extinct in that stream. But the persevering 

 efforts of Messrs. Buist and Brown, who propagated the 

 young fish at their establishment at Stormonfield, and the 

 stringent laws relating to fishing in that country, have had 

 the effect to make salmon very abundant in that stream. In 



