. Annual report of the Commissioners of Fisheries, Game and Forests of the State of New York . n all probability the people of those countries at that timeknew nothing of fish culture as practiced to-day. The people of this century aregiven to demanding facts based upon figures, when history is offered to them; and,leaving speculation out of the question, I will recite briefly some of the beginnings ofpisciculture. It has been claimed that a French monk, Dom Pinchon, in the Abbeyof Reome discoveredthe process of hatchingfish eggs in 1420, but itis believed by those bestinformed that he sim-ply
. Annual report of the Commissioners of Fisheries, Game and Forests of the State of New York . n all probability the people of those countries at that timeknew nothing of fish culture as practiced to-day. The people of this century aregiven to demanding facts based upon figures, when history is offered to them; and,leaving speculation out of the question, I will recite briefly some of the beginnings ofpisciculture. It has been claimed that a French monk, Dom Pinchon, in the Abbeyof Reome discoveredthe process of hatchingfish eggs in 1420, but itis believed by those bestinformed that he sim-ply collected and trans-planted eggs that hadbeen naturally impreg-nated. The real father offish culture, who firstfecundated fish eggsartificially, was StephenLudwig Jacobi, a Ger-man, born April 28,1709, at Hohenhausen,in the Province ofVarenholz. In 1741 he took eggs and milt from trout by hand and fertilized them artificially, and thatwas the genesis of modern pisciculture. For hatching trout ova, Jacobi usedwooden troughs, the bottom covered with gravel, to represent the natural spawning. GENESIS OF ANGLING. 192 REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONERS OF beds of the fish, a process abandoned by most fish breeders, but in vogue to-dayat one of the largest hatching stations of the United States Fish Commission. Jacobidid not make his discovery known until 1763 when his methods were published in aHanoverian Magazine. The next year his discovery was endorsed by Germannaturalists; his memoir was published in Paris in 1770; he was recognized by GeorgeIII. of England, in 1 771, who granted him a life pension for his discovery; his memoirwas translated into English in London in 1 788, and there can be no doubt regardingthe title that has been given him as the first to discover and carry into practicalusefulness the art of fish culture. John Shaw was the first to artificially fecundate the eggs of salmon in GreatBritain, in the year 1837, and Dr. Theodatus Garlick was the father of fish culture i
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