Excerpt from On the Culture of Salmonidae and the Acclimatization of Fish

Mr. Wilmot (commissioner for Canada) said he rose with great pleasure to move a vote of thanks to Sir James Maitland for the very lucid and instructive Paper he had read, for he felt satisfied that much benefit would be derived from it. He was a deep lover of the science of fish culture, believing it to be one of the means by which the population of the earth hereafter would derive much benefit in the way of food and wealth. It was well known that the waters of almost every country which had been largely inhabited had become very scarce of fish, but this result was brought about by the greed and avarice of mankind almost entirely, not in consequence of the pre datory habits of other fish which frequented the saine waters. In any new country an abundance of fish was to be found in the rivers and waters, showing that the balance of nature was evidently correct, that though fish fed on fish, they did not exterminate one another, but the moment man stepped in with his engines of destruction, the fish were reduced to such an extent that this great Inter national Exhibition had been established for the purpose of devising means whereby this description of food could be increased. He regretted to find that, to some extent.

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