60 BULLETIN OF THE UNITED STATES FISH COMMISSION, 



34 IVOTES ©IV THE SCOTCH HERRINd;^ FI^HERIGS. 



By T. F. ROBERTSON CARR. 



[From a letter to Capt. J. W. Collins.] 



Chiistopber Borth wick, fisbertuan, Eyemouth, says : One day this sea- 

 son, in the mouth of August, when hauling in the nets atsuurise in the 

 boat Harriet Miller, we perceived that the herring had "masked'' {i. e., 

 meshed). We had hauled 35 nets and had other 15 to haul. In 5 yards' 

 length of net by 7 fathoms deep we got 5J crans of herring ; all the nets 

 before and after this space were blank. The force with which the fish 

 struck the net dragged the boat astern, although it had a " little way 

 on her." The crew were so struck with the novel occurrence that they 

 made a note of the aftair and measured the space and fish. 



A Coldingham boat fishing with the metallic buoys had so great a 

 catch of herrings as to sink nets, buoys, and everything; the nets were 

 fished u]) afterwards and the buoys were found to be flattened out like 

 a griddle cake, bj' the weight of the water on the top of them. The 

 same party states that bladder buoys will stand any weight of water on 

 top of them. 



Edinbuegh, Scotland, September 26, 1883. 



as.— AMEKBCAN FISH intro»uc;ei> in eivgiiIsh ^;vaters. 



By J. .1. MAN LEY. 



[From Journal of the Society of Arts, November 23, 1883.] 



The great lake trout of Switzerland has been successfully introduced 

 into some of our waters, and so has the Salnio Jmitinalis, or American 

 " brook trout." The black hass {Grystes nigricans) from the northern 

 districts of America, and that from the southern and western, known by 

 the name of Grystes sahnoides, have also been found likely to suit our 

 waters. The Marquis of Exeter has been very successful in the accli- 

 matization of some species of black bass at Burleigh House, and it is a 

 fisli which would probably thrive well in some of the waters of the East 

 Anglian broads and rivers, as suggested by Mr. S. Wilmot, the Cana- 

 dian commissioner at South Kensington, on the occasion of a visit some 

 few weeks ago to the Norfolk broads by gentlemen connected with the 

 Fisheries Exhibition. The black bass is a fine sporting fish, and gastro- 

 nomically to be commended. To these we may add, as suitable to some 

 of our waters, the whitefish {Coregonvs albns) of America, which is very 

 prolific, and most excellent eating. 



London, England, November 23, 1883. 



