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IV. 



ME. ashwoeth's tTNDEETAKINGS. 



Several successful undertakings in pisciculture have been 

 carried out in Ireland. The first of any note, perhaps, 

 was at Outerard, near Galway, in 1852. The Gal way 

 Kiver is the channel through which Loughs Mask and 

 Corrib, two enormous lakes containing a vast area of 

 water, discharge themselves into the sea. The fishery of 

 this river belongs to Mr. Ashworth. In 1852, finding 

 the stock had been terribly reduced from a variety of 

 causes, he established a breeding-place at Outerard, in a 

 small tributary stream. Here twenty boxes were laid 

 down, after the same fashion as the plan, already ex- 

 plained, adopted at Stormontfield. This plan, carried 

 out by Mr. Eamsbottom, was the model whence Stor- 

 montfield was taken. These boxes were stocked with 

 about 40,000 ova, which in due time came to perfection. 

 Subsequently, owing partly to the opening of a wide 

 Queen's-gap in the weir, Mr. Ash worth's fishery multiplied 

 itself in value manifold, and he cast about, adding a still 

 larger area to the field of his operations. 



Ifough Mask, which discharges into Lough Corrib, is 

 separated from it by a very rugged channel and a lofty, 

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