┌──────────┬─────────────┬──────────┬───────────┬──────────┬─────────┐ │ │ │ │ │ Quantity │Retained │ │ Species │ Time of │ Ova │ │despatched│ for │ │ │ Operations. │provided. │ Loss. │ from the │ Experi- │ │ │ │ │ │Establish-│ ments at│ │ │ │ │ │ ment. │Huningue.│ ├──────────┼─────────────┼──────────┼───────────┼──────────┼─────────┤ │ │ 1861-62. │ │ │ │ │ │Common │ │ │ │ │ │ │ trout}│ │ │ │ │ │ │Salmon }│ │ │ │ │ │ │ trout}│ │ │ │ │ │ │Great lake│ { Oct. 24 }│ │ │ │ │ │ trout}│ {to Mar. 7,}│ 6,382,900│ 2,602,400│ 3,360,000│ 420,500│ │Rhine }│ {135 days. }│ │ │ │ │ │ salmon}│ │ │ │ │ │ │Ombre }│ │ │ │ │ │ │chevalier}│ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │{ Nov. 16 }│ │ │ │ │ │Fera │{to Dec. 25,}│11,995,000│ 12,000 │ 9,519,000│2,464,000│ │ │{ 39 days. }│ │ │ │ │ ├──────────┼─────────────┼──────────┼───────────┼──────────┼─────────┤ │ Total │ │18,377,900│ 2,614,400 │12,879,000│2,884,500│ └──────────┴─────────────┴──────────┴───────────┴──────────┴─────────┘ 296 demands for establishments in 76 departments of France, and 39 demands from other parts of Europe. So far as I could ascertain, the right of fishing in France is claimed by the Government in all navigable rivers and canals, but private persons can purchase the power to fish; and the rent payable by those using nets varies from £1 to £4 per annum. In common streams that are not navigable, and in lakes, the fishery belongs to the proprietors of the surrounding land, and no person can fish in these without permission. As to the larger river fisheries, they are so mapped out as to prevent all possibility of dispute, no fisherman being permitted to work his nets on a portion of water which does not belong to him. Fishing of some kind goes on all the year round. The following figures will indicate the money rental and the value of the produce of the whole of the French fisheries:—