THE NEW ART OF BREEDING FISH. 81 



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Report on artificial Fish-culture, and on stocking 

 barren or impowrished rivers with fish, artifi- 

 cially hatched ; made to the Minister of Com- 

 merce by M. Milne-Edwards, member of the In- 

 stitute. 



Sir: 



Owing to the interest which you feel in all dis- 

 coveries calcuMed to increase the alimentary re- 

 sources of the country, you desired to form a correct 

 opinion of the attempts which, for some time, have 

 been made, whether in France or in England, to en- 

 sure the multiplication of fish, in ponds and rivers, 

 and to augment the value of products of fisheries. 



You have done me the honor to submit this ques- 

 tion to my examination, and have charged me most 

 particularly to render a complete account of the re- 

 sults obtained by two fishermen, who followed their 

 trade near the sources of the Moselle, and who, by a 

 process of artificial fecundation, have estabUshed in 

 the department of the Vosges, a Yen.tah\& fish factory. 

 With pleasure I conformed to your wishes, and I will 

 be well pleased, Mr. Minister, if the investigations I 

 have made, can aid you in endowing our rural indus- 

 try with a new source of wealth, the importance of 

 which will not be undervalued by physiologists or 

 agriculturists. Fish is an article of food, rich in mx-j 

 tritive qualities, and to augment its abundance, 



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