56*2 REPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF FISH AND FISHERIES. 



tural Society would gladly lend a helping hand in furthering any ex- 

 periments in raising it. 



As far as the undersigned knows, the gold-orfe has so far only been 

 raised in South Germany, by Mr. Scheuermann, at Dinkelsbiikl, Bavaria, 

 chiefly with a view of providing the aquaria with an ornamental fish. 

 If people in Wiesbaden have succeeded in raising this fish as a palat- 

 able article of food, the cause of this may be found in the circumstance 

 that the neighborhood of Wiesbaden must be entirely destitute of bet- 

 ter-flavored fish, for, otherwise, the gold-orfe would certainly not have 

 been used as an article of food. Judging of the experience of our 

 well-supplied Miiuich fish-market, it appears that this fish does not at 

 all find a ready market among the fish-loving Munich public, since 

 scarcely any of this fish and its variety (the Leuciscus or/us) are sold as 

 articles of food, their flesh being very insipid and full of bones. 



Young "gold-orfe" are only sought after by keepers of aquaria, as, 

 on account of their beauty, they form a very good and cheap substitute 

 for the Chinese gold-fish. The larger fish of this kind are mostly used 

 for ornamenting lakes in parks and the basins of fountains. The under- 

 signed very much doubts whether even the most expert cook could so 

 heighten the flavor of the "goldorfe" as to compete successfully with 

 the salmon. 



Munich, Becemher 15, 1871. 



