322 BULLETIN OF THE UNITED STATES FISH COMMISSION. 



They cau be caught conveuieiitly in a gill-net, but with great difficulty 

 in a seine. 



My liond covers 5 acres of land, the largest and best i^ond in 

 Western Georgia. It is a jjcrfect mass of fish aud has been constructed 

 only eleven mouths. The water is from an inch to 5 feet deep, aud 

 abounds in vegetation. I could sell it for a fine price, but I would not 

 exchange for the best four horse farm in Georgia. The twenty little 

 carp you sent me last winter, then about 3 or 4 inches long, are now 20 

 inches in length. I had two old ones that I bought, and they have 

 stocked my pond with hundreds now about 8 or 10 inches long. 



HoGANSViLLE, Ga., October 31, 1883. 



I am anxious to send you some of my " speckled cat," and to have 

 you test their value as a domestic fish in the Government ponds. I can 

 send you some alive without danger. 



I am sending the September spawn all over the Southern States now, 

 and when they are proi>erly introduced they will give the laborers or 

 farmers all the meat needed. 



HoaANSViLLE, Ga., November 5, 1883. 



164.— the: ihioratioiv.^ of the: sal.itioiv (salitio saxlAR li.) iiv the 



BAIiTIC\* 



By Prof. A. J. MAI.I»ICJREr¥. 



From time immemorial there have been caught in Finland salmon in 

 whose mouth or entrails have been found hooks of a form and charac- 

 ter entirely unknown in these regions. In all the salmon streams 

 which fall iuto the Gulf of Bothnia, not exceptiug the most northern, 

 the Tornea and Kemi, it is quite common to find such hooks. They are 

 found every summer, even in the Kymmenc Kiver, which empties into 

 the Gulf of Finland, although not so frequently as in some of the other 

 rivers. At the Raatti salmon fishery in the Ulea Eiver, where all sal- 

 mon are cleaned before tbey are sold, the fishermen gather every year a 

 large number of strange hooks taken from the mouths and stomachs of 

 salmon. Thus, I was informed during my last visit to Raatti in August, 



1883, that among about 3,000 salmon caught since the end of J une, weigh- 

 ing on an average from 25 to 30 pounds, there were at least 25 fish from 

 which brass hooks Avere extracted. At the Klockarsand's government 

 fisheries in the Kumo Eiver, near Biorneborg, a considerable number of 

 similar hooks are taken from salmon every summer. 



With few exceptions, of which I shall speak later, the hooks found, 

 in salmon are of the same kiud. The}' are made of brass wire, varying 

 in thickness from 2 to 2^ millimeters [from one-twelfth to one-tenth of an 



* ^' Laxena {Salmo salar L.) vandringari Osteysjlin." From Aftryck nr Shorten, No. 2j 



1884. Translated from the Swedish by Herman Jacobsqn. 



