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: CHAPTER III. CHIEFLY HISTORICAL. Frank Buckland—-His prophecies— Their fulfilment—Troutdale Fishery— Introduction of black bass and American trout—Solway Fishery commenced—Its progress—Nocturnal adventures—Discovery in Germany by Golstein—Jacobi— Gehin and Remv—M. Coste—Huningen—Gremaz—German Progress. I ITERATURE tells us of the fish culture of the olden times, —' the esteem in which fish were held by the ancient Greeks and Romans, the ponds of the monks in Great Britain, and how the Chinese ingeniously collect the spawn of fishes on bundles of sticks and mats placed in the water, and how it is sold in their markets. On some parts of the Continent, too, fish are taken alive to market, and those which are not sold are taken back and returned to their pond living and well. As a pioneer of fish culture in this country there is no more honoured name than that of the late lamented Frank Buckland. How well I remember, some thirty years ago, listening to his talk about trout and salmon, and their ova, and reading his book on " Fish Hatching," published in 1863. More than a quarter of a century has rolled away since those days, and it is exceedingly interesting to look back and see how largely the work has developed since that time, often progressing under considerable difficulties, until it has reached its present magnitude. Frank Buckland said of fish culture that it promised " to be eventually the origin or increase of revenue to private individuals, a source of national wealth, and certainly a great boon to the public in general." The first portion of the prophecy has been fulfilled; the second is only waiting to be so, as soon as our Government willstep in and take the matter in hand with regard to some of our marine and anadromous fishes, or else by suitable laws ...