72 THE NEW ART OF BBEEDIN6 FISH. 



CHAPTER "'FIFTH. 



MEANS OF TRANSPOUT OF EGGS OF FISH JUST HATCH- 

 ED, AND OF FISH TO STOCK PONDS OR STREAMS. 



TRANSPORT OF EGGS, 



In China may be seen, towards the month of 

 May, a great number of vessels collected in the great 

 river Yang the Krang, to buy tliere the seed of fish, 

 a custom which has continued for ages. The coun- 

 try people bar the river in many places for the space 

 of eight or ten leagues with nets and hurdles, leav- 

 ing only space for the passage of a single vessel. 

 The seed of the fish is arrested by these hurdles, 

 when these people perceive it, though a stranger's eye 

 would not discover it. They dip up the water con- 

 taining the seed of the fish and empty it into large 

 vessels, which they sell to traders, who take it to the 

 provinces, and resell it in smaller quantities to pro- 

 prietors who own rivers, brooks or ponds, which they 

 wish to stock with fish. 



The Romans did as the Chinese, and had r&- 

 course to the same means to stock their streams, 

 applying them on a vast scale, sowing eggs as they 

 would grain, and carrying this trade even to the ex- 

 tent of hatching, in fresh waters, the spawn of sea. 

 fish, which they thought thus to acclimate. Thua 



