New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1853-05-19
PIsCICILTIRE.

W e utNOltu tOuc space III our ulouLus
since TO account of recent experiments in France in
extending the production OF fish, experiments so salts
factory in their results in their then stage of progress
to lead to weounded hopes that by little care and
exertion every brook and ryule may be made to afford
large increase to means of subsistence.
The place where at the present time the principal
pertinent is in progress is the village of Hdnngen aud
its enyirons in Asace few miles from Basic, in Swz-
erland The French Government few months since,
loaned % 900 francs to NM Berthot and Detzem, to
enable them TO make all needful preparations aud ar
TO carry the experiment at this place
scale that should prove decisive The Superintendent
of this establishment NJ Coste, made report in Feb
ruary last to the Academy OF Sciences upon the pro-
pres which he had made and the report is published in
one Of tie April numbers of Dingtrs Polytechnic Jour
NAL very respectable German publication His treat
ment OF the spawn of salmon and trout had proved
satisfactory in its results that be has doubt Of having
by June that in four months from the date of the re
port 100000 young fish of these two species with which
10 furnish the rivers all sufficiently grown to be
from the ordinary dangers to which the minnOw is *.
posed In the brooks of Hdningen in which the spawn
is hached, over million Of salmon and eggs have
been placed Of which 10000 were spawned along he
bank Of the Rhine under the eye OF the Director.
may be imagined when years space il taken into
sderaon for no the present varieties of fish
distributed from the brooks and ponds than their places
will be supplied by the young Of the Danube salmon and
shad which spawn only in the spring, thus keeping up
constant succession.
This new branch Of industry is already spread at Hd
pineen over space some miles in extent, where the
waters If ten natural fountains, that Of small
passing through the establishment those Of the Rhine
and the standing of marSby ground are all fund
near each other and at hand mnge in such proper
lions as may be necessary for different species Hopes
are enter aimed that sturgeon and other fish, which
qure the sea and fresh water by turns, may thus be
raised and that by placing them in the Rhone when
YOUNG the BAYS of the Mediterranean may once more
be stocked with fish.
Successful experiments, by means Of ponds of salt
water have been made upon the shores OF the Adratc
in the PontiDe marshes and in the Gulf Of Naples, in the
artificial production of salt waTerfs
m, Pol,teelHc Journal mentioned above, contains
full description OF the simple processes employed at Hd
niDcen but these have been sufficiently explained in
III former article published in The Tribune. The OBJ
tanning # the spawn by pressing the eeuDd hsA Is IN
fact nothing more than simple act OF mdSifery-so TO
spesk, the main thing being the proper care ana pro-
tectVn Of the eggs oh aimed and the enormous null
tpicaton of fish owing simply TO the fact tia; they
are thus saved from the inhumerabe dangers TO which
they are exposed in tue open rivers and thai each egg
is afforded opportunity TO produce IT'S fish, instead Of
being deyOured with myrads Of others, by birds fish
and other ANIMALS which prey upon them This new arc
might easily be Ttnpanted 70 The Cuited States. and
4 would be worth while for Of our State Legsla
ures TO inquire intc il with view 10 the forming Of
establishments and the stocking Of the rivers with
great abundance of the most delicious kinds Of fish.