THE NEW AET OF BREEDING FISH. 89 



the merit of creating in France a new branch of in- 

 dustry.* 



The first essays of Messrs. Gehin and Remy were 

 made in 1842. Having by a long course of observation 

 become acquainted with the mode of reproduction 

 practised by trout, and being assured of the possi- 

 bihty of artificially fecundating its eggs, they applied 

 themselves to the production of quantities of these 

 fish to stock the streams of the canton. Success 

 crowned their efibrts, and notwithstanding their fee- 

 ble resources, and the difficulties of all sorts they 

 had to encounter, they still obtained considerable 

 results. 



They were enabled to stock, with young trout 

 artificially hatched, two ponds near their village of 

 Bresse, one of which furnished last year 1200 trout 

 of two years old. 



Gehin and Eemy estimate at about 50,000 the 

 number of young fish they have put in the Moselotte, 

 a little river of Bresse, which empties into the Mo- 

 selle near Eemiremont ; they have put in practice 

 their mode of stocking in several other localities of 

 the same canton, as appears by documents furnished 

 by the authorities of Saulxures, of Cornimont, and 

 of Gerardmer. Besides these, M. Kienzi, Mayor of 



* M. Edwards, in this paragraph of his report, seems to concede 

 to the two fishermen all that can be claimed for them as discover- 

 ers of a mode of rendering a discovery useful and valuable ; not 

 withstanding Dr. Haxo's pamphlet to prove the injustice of M. 

 Edwards and others towards them. — Translator. 



