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The Fisheries Exhibition Literature (v. 11)
The Fisheries Exhibition Literature - v. 11 Author:Unknown Author Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: THE PROPAGATION OF FRESHWATER FISH, EXCLUDING SALMONIDE. " THOROUGH."—[W. OLDHAM CHAMBERS, F.L.S., F.R.I.B.A.] VOL. XI.—E. 19 PROPAGATION OF FR... more »ESHWATER FISH. The measures by which our food fishes can best be introduction, multiplied have more or less from the earliest periods of time received the consideration of mankind. The first attempts at breeding, rearing and cultivating Early history, fish were made by the Chinese, and can be traced back to periods of the greatest antiquity ; it was a national source of wealth, and proved of great value in the supply of daily food and in relieving distress in time of famine. Several instances are mentioned in the Bible as far back as 2000 years B.C. The Romans spent large sums of money in the culture Roman works. of fish and construction of ponds and lakes, notably that bon vivant Lucullus, history informing us that he bored through the sides of a mountain to introduce sea-water into his fish-ponds. During the middle ages pisciculture had many patrons, ponds of and the monks contributed in no small degree to itsm e ages' success, as it presented them with the means of food during their religious feasts and ordinances. In many parts of the country very fine examples of ponds or stews are visible, showing great engineering skill in their construction. No trace of Although means have been adopted for the artificial fish culture in modern propagation of salmonidae during comparatively modern 1 periods, we are devoid of any reliable data as to practical endeavours in this country to cultivate any of our national coarse fish for the purpose of restocking our depleted rivers and food-producing acres. The science of fish culture is now no longer a question of experiment based on scientific...« less