Encyclopédie agricole Pisciculture

Abstract

THIS is a comprehensive, compact, and eminently practical handbook on all matters relating to fresh-water pisciculture. Much of the information and criticism which it contains applies almost equally to England as to France, since most of the fishes dealt with are found in our islands, and the almost complete neglect of fresh-water pisciculture—except in the case of the Salmonidæ—is as characteristic of this country as of that. What is true of the depopulation of the French watercourses is partly true of our own. In France the depopulation and its neglect were due partly to obvious causes inseparable from industrial progress, such as the opening of canals, the development of navigation, and the establishment of manufacturing works and chemical factories on the river banks, and partly to lack of enthusiasm following on historical, events. The means adopted to arrest the depopulation, much less to restock the waters, have been, and continue to be, utterly disproportionate to the extent of the waters and to the magnitude of the task.

Encyclopédie agricole. Pisciculture.

By Georges Guénaux. Introduction by Dr. P. Regnard. Preface by M. Charles Deloncle. Pp. xii + 489. (Paris: Baillière et Fils.) Price 5 francs.