diet is ill itself most digestible and uourisliing, particularly for in¬ 
valids. Tbcre are indeed many races of men whose sole sustenance 
is fish. Again, consider the thousands of persons whose sustenance 
depends upon the capture of fish. It is marvellous to behold the 
fleets of fishing-boats that annually follow the herrings in their 
migration along our costs, and financial returns of this fishery. With 
reference to fish-culture in the sea, we can do but little, except as 
regards one important fact, which was not long ago mooted in the 
Times, viz., the necessity of looking sharply after the size of the 
meshes of the nets, to prevent the destruction of the young fry, but 
if wc cannot do much for fish, surely there are such things as what 
are commonly called shell fish; need I name the oyster and the 
muscle. As regards the oyster and the muscle, 1 have reference to 
several published facts to show that the cultivation of those articles 
of human food not only answers but even pays. 
We then come to the cultivation of fresh-water fish, and this may 
be regarded in two points of view:—First, as regards the actual use 
of fish for food ; secondly, as regards sport, and regulations for the 
anglers. Jilany persons laugh at the angler, and define him, accord¬ 
ing to Dr. Johnson’s idea, ivs “ a fool at one end, and a rod at the 
other;” but, mark you, wc do not live in Dr. Johnson’s time. Plan’s 
instinct for preying and desti-oying creatures, feroi naturm, when 
unable to develop itself in fox-lmnting or partridge shooting, mani¬ 
fests itself ill the love of angling. 
This noble art has now reduced its maxims to a science. Hundreds 
of brains and hands arc at -work on this subject, whether it be fly¬ 
fishing or bottom-fishing ; and in London alone there are fishing-tackle 
makers innumerable, whose buBincss would cease to exist if they 
were not well-supported; and within the last few months a most 
important movement has taken place as regards the Thames, for by 
the exertions of the Thames Angling Preservation Society and their 
secretary, Mr. Famell, the practice of netting has been abolished, and 
the fish are now protected from Kew-bridge to the City stone beyond 
Staines-bridge, and even higher up the river. I hear that netting is 
gradually becoming abolished. Besides this, by the kindness of the 
Duke of Eutland, the Eight Hon. Sidney Herbert, and others, several 
trout and grayling have been introduced at various points of the river. 
It is a happy provision of nature that there is a fish to be found 
adapted to almost any sort of water, from the lordly salmon of the 
mountain torrent to the humble eel of the stagnant ditch. Why 
should not wc xiay a little more attention to tlie habits of fish, and 
transfer fish suited for a certain kind of water into that water, sup¬ 
posing there to be none there already 1 Let us sliid^ the transport 
