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it was understood that a Thames angler needed three years for the capt- 

 ure of a single specinien of the giant trout liviug in the river. Last 

 year one gentleman took 80 good trout. Next to the late Mr. Frank 

 Buckland, unquestionably Mr. James Forbes has obtained the greatest 

 return. He has a small but verj' prettily arranged fish-breeding estab- 

 lishment near Chertsey bridge, and in ten years has set free in the 

 Thames a total of 120,000 to 1.50,000 trout fry. At Sunbury, also, has 

 artificial breeding been effective in improving the trout fishery of the 

 Thames. At the annual dinner of the Thames Preservation Society, a 

 list was submitted of trout taken with the hook in a single week in May, 

 1883, between Chertsey dam and Kingston. It embraces 18 trout, 

 weighing in the aggregate 109 pounds 14 ounces, thus averaging 6 pounds 

 each. There Avas universal satisfaction over the success, and not a 

 doubt has come to ray ears that artificial culture deserves the credit. 



Mr. li. B. Marston, reports in the London Field, of October 30, that 

 Mr. S. Wilmot has in the International Fishery Exhibition in London an 

 11-pound Xew Zealand trout that was sent to him by the Otago Accli- 

 matization Society; it was caught with the hook, and larger specimens 

 are often killed. About twenty years ago trout eggs were sent from 

 England to Kew Zealand, and from those has it resulted that the rivers 

 of that region are now stocked with noble trout. Dr. Francis Day re 

 ceived from New Zealand two beautiful trout in ice; they reached Lon- 

 don in good condition, and are undoubtedly Salmo fario. 



LAKE TROUT AND CHAR. 



Oekonomierath Briissow, of Schwerin, Mecklenburg, caught last 

 winter in his lake, with the coarse net, several 3-pound trout. 



Ziccitzen^ near Jena. — The char flourishes very well in several ponds 

 in Thuriugia. According to Oberbiirgermeister Schuster, of Freiburg, 

 the success of the planting of char in the Lake of Constance is beyond 

 doubt. 



GRAYLING. 



(Reports are given from seven diflereut localities, showing in each case 

 an increase of grayling resulting from the planting of fry.) 



WHITEFISn. 



In the Schleier Lake in the Bavarian Alps, in the autumn of 1882, the 

 first ripe whitefish were taken. There were Corego7itis marama, the well- 

 known fish of the Madui Lake, which have been introduced to the for- 

 mer locality since 1878 by the German Fishery Union. 



Success has likewise attended the introduction of Coregonus Wart- 

 manni, the "blaufelchen" of Lake Constance, into North German lakes. 

 A spent male was taken February 24, in the Talter Lake, a i)art of 

 Spirding Lake. According to Professor Benecke, it was 34 centimeters 

 long, 7.5 centimeters high, 4 centimeters thick, and weighed 305 grams. 



