J. PISCICULTURE AND THE FISHERIES. 419 



about five inches in length, one of the males eight, and the 

 other seven. Their average weight was about three ounces, 

 which is considerably less than that of the trout with which 

 they were associated. 



INCREASE OF ENGLISH EISHES IN TASMANIA. 



In illustration of what may be done in the way of multi- 

 plying food fishes in new localities, we may refer to the re- 

 sults of experiments made in Tasmania in connection with 

 the English trout and the English perch. In four successive 

 years prior to 1861 attempts were made to introduce these 

 fishes into Tasmania from England, but it was not until De- 

 cember, 1861, that a fifth attempt succeeded. A certain num- 

 ber of live fish having been brought out and placed in ponds 

 expressly built for them by Mr. Allport, other fish were ob- 

 tained in the following year, from which the immense sup- 

 ply now so extensively distributed throughout Tasmania and 

 Australia have been derived. The present abundance may 

 be estimated from the fact that, in Lake Wendouree, at Bal- 

 larat, no less than nine tons were caught during the last sea- 

 son. One fish, three years old, weighed three and a half 

 pounds; another, taken in 1874, weighed four pounds. The 

 parent fish were first brought from England to Tasmania, 

 and afterward from the latter country to Victoria. Five 

 small fishes represent the ancestry of the fish referred to as 

 existing in the last-mentioned country. Pr. Zool. and Ac- 

 dim. Soe. of Tasmania for 1874, p. 44. 



STOCKING THE EIVEES ON THE WEST SIDE OF LAKE CHAM- 

 PLAIN BY THE U. S. FISH COMMISSION. 



The United States Fish Commission has recently complet- 

 ed a very important undertaking in the interest of the State 

 of New York, in the way of stocking the rivers of the state 

 on the west side of Lake Champlain, especially the Chazy, 

 the Salmon, and the Saranac, with salmon, some 200,000 in 

 number bavins: been hatched out at the establishment of 

 Messrs. Stone & Hooper, at Charlestown, New Hampshire, 

 and planted by Dr. M, C. Edmunds, one of the Fish Com- 

 missioners of Vermont. 



The entire expense of this enterprise, amounting to nearly 

 four hundred dollars, has been met by the United States. 



