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Great Britain possesses the largest and finest private hatch¬ 
ery in the world, that of Sir James Maitland, at Howietoun, 
near Stirling. The capacity of this establishment is said 
to be 4,000,000 trout-eggs annually, and in 1890-91 there 
were actually hatched here 2,300,000 eggs, principally Loch 
Leven trout, with some brown trout and American Salvelinus 
fontinalis. Though of late years the culture of sea-fish has 
attracted much attention, this has not as yet been attempted 
in England upon a large scale: in 1890, however, experi¬ 
ments were begun upon the sole at Plymouth, and soon 
after a second station was built at St. Andrews. In 1883 
a memorable International Exhibition was held at London, 
its subject being Fish and Fisheries alone. 
In the Provinces Fish-culture is well appreciated. Can¬ 
ada possesses twelve principal stations, all owned by the 
government, and a Ministry of Marine and Fisheries, the 
only one in the world. In Newfoundland there is a marine 
hatchery upon Trinity Bay, commenced in 1889: in 1891 
this station turned out 15,000,000 cod-fry and 400,000,000 
young lobsters, and in that same year a similar establish¬ 
ment was started at Pictou, Nova Scotia. 
Far from being behind Europe, America now stands in 
the front rank in Fish-culture, and in no country do the 
people evidence a greater degree of interest in the subject. 
This art seems to have first attracted public attention in 
the United States about forty-seven years ago. It was time 
that it should do so! Our sea-fisheries, once so famous and 
so prosperous, had begun to fail seriously. The millions of 
salmon and shad which once filled the Penobscot, the Ken¬ 
nebec, the Androscoggin, the Merrimac, the Connecticut, the 
Housatonic, the Hudson, the Delaware, the Susquehanna, 
the Potomac and others of our rivers, had almost entirely 
disappeared. Our Great Lakes were denuded of their white- 
fish. Our ponds and streams, once alive with speckled trout, 
had been deserted. We had wasted our resources. Indis¬ 
criminate and unlawful means of fishing had produced their 
effect, though they were responsible for but a small part of 
