30 An Anglers Paradise. 
hatching fish ova by artificial means originated in Germany, and 
is ascribed to'a German naturalist, Count von Golstein, who is 
said to have made the discovery in the year 1758. Having 
obtained some ova and taken what he considered to be the 
necessary steps for its preservation, he was rewarded, when the 
proper time had elapsed, by seeing young fish produced., Later 
still, about the year 1763 one Jacobi, another German naturalist, 
performed the same experiment, with this difference that he took 
his eggs from a dead fish instead of a living one; and what is 
more remarkable, his experiment also proved successful. 
Bertram, in his ‘Harvest of the Sea,” says :—‘‘ Jacobi, who 
practised the art for thirty years, was not satisfied with the mere 
discovery, but at once turned what he had discovered to practical 
account, and in the time of Jacobi great attention was devoted to 
pisciculture by various gentlemen of scientific eminence. 
The results arrived at by Jacobi were of vast importance, and 
obtained not only the recognition of his Government, but also the 
more solid reward of a pension.” The well known Spallanzani 
also experimented in Italy on the ova of fish, as well as upon the 
spawn of toads ; and since then many other experiments have 
been tried by scientists and others in various countries, but no 
one ever seemed to think of turning the knowledge gained to any 
practical account, but merely looked upon the whole affair as an 
interesting scientific experiment. 
Although discovered in Germany by Count von Golstein and 
by Jacobi, the art of pisciculture became known to two humble 
peasants named Gehin and Remy in France about the year 1840. 
These two men lived in an obscure village called La Bresse in 
the department of the Vosges, where it was observed that the 
supply of fish was falling of. They found out how the eggs of 
trout were fecundated, and following up the knowledge they had 
gained, in 1841 they succeeded in hatching their first eggs in a 
very rude sort of apparatus placed in the bed of a stream. 
During the next three seasons they continued their work, and in 
1844 were presented with a bronze medal and a sum of money 
by the Société d’ Emulation des Vosges, as some encouragement 
to their praiseworthy efforts. 
These’ two poor men knew nothing of Count von Golstein, 
