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lets or brooks, for the fisli to be changed during 

 three years, new ones being placed in them as fast 

 as exhausted. 



Unhappily Messrs. G^hin and Kemy have not at 

 their disposal the necessary funds to complete this 

 work. They have obtained the grant of a fish-pond 

 for this purpose, and bought another for 800 francs ; 

 but now their pecuniary means are gone, and if, 

 sir, under your kind protection, they do not get 

 some help from Grovernment, I fear it will be impos- 

 sible for- them to pursue the trials so satisfactorily 

 commenced. 



The labors of Messrs. G^hin and Kemy appear 

 to me the more worthy of encouragement, as success 

 can aiford but little profit to such devoted and ac- 

 tive men, but will contribute to increase the alimen- 

 tary resources commanded by the people on the 

 banks of streams. Only in considering fisheries as 

 works of public utility and causing them to be ex- 

 ecuted by the state, can we hope to give real im- 

 portance to our river fisheries ; but in applying a 

 small sum to this end, we wiU arrive, I have no 

 doubt, at important results for the country. 



If the fish-breeding practised by Messrs. G^hin 

 and Eemy were only applicable to trout, and to 

 other fish of limited supply, I would not attach as 

 much interest to it as I do ; but it may be applied 

 to salmon, and I am convinced that it would be 

 easy thus to restore to the rivers of Brittany icthyolo- 

 gical riches which are now disappearing, and even to 



