[730] Lactantius, de mortibus persecutorum, 7.
[731] [See p. 337], postea.
[732] The lower price of river as compared with sea fish seems additional evidence that the preference for the latter, well attested in the earlier days of Athens and of Rome, still continued.
[733] From p. 174 ff. of Abbott, who gives the prices in cents.
[734] Op. cit., p. 48.
[735] In the case of Trout, the ova can be successfully transported to South Africa or even to New Zealand, as the period of incubation is a long one. After hatching, the alevins, fry, or young fish can be utilised to stock fish ponds, or other waters.
[736] Cf. an article in the Revue des deux Mondes, for June, 1854, by M. Jules Haime.
[737] According to Magna Carta, c. 33, “all kydells [dams or weirs] for the future shall be removed altogether from the Thames and the Medway, and throughout all England, except on the sea-shore.”
It was for over 500 years held that this was a measure intended to safeguard the passage of fish, but W. S. McKechnie, Magna Carta (Glasgow, 1914.) pp. 303 ff., 343 ff., has shown that it aimed at removing hindrances to navigation, not to ascending fish.
[738] Op. cit., 376, but see Chinese chapter.