2G2 BULLETIN OF THE UNITED STATES FISH COMMISSION. 



While quite yonug this fish was exhibited in the aquarium of Mayor 

 Schuster at the Berlin International Fishery Exposition. 



At Szomolany, Hungary, many of the California salmon died in con- 

 sequence of the spawn having been extracted. Count Palffy accord- 

 ingly had the remaining fish placed in the river Waag, with the hope 

 that they would go into the Black Sea and finally stock the Danube. In 

 the autumn of 1882 the number of California salmon was 109, weighing 

 in all 52 pounds. 



Baroness von Wattmann, of Cieszanow, Galicia, reports that in her 

 fish -cultural establishment the California salmon had in a year's time 

 grown twice as large as the domestic salmon and trout. 



American brook-trout (Salmo fontinalis).— This fish is already 

 so thoroughly acclimatized in Germany that 21,684 impregnated eggs 

 could be sent from Coslin (province of Pomerauia, Prussia) and 12,030 

 from Boitzenburg (Mecklenburg), and that the president of the Fishery 

 Association of Upper Hungary, Count Migazzy, had 17,000 eggs of this 

 fish impregnated at his establishment at Arauyos-Maroth. Recently, 

 also, 18,770 eggs were imported from America. If the water does not be- 

 come too warm during the summer, this fish thrives greatly. At Cley- 

 singen the brook-trout of last year now average in weight one-third of 

 a pound ; at Scheibe and Zwatzen the fry of 1883 has grown wonder- 

 fully ; and at Woschczutz and Wusterbarth the young fish of 1883 have 

 attained a length of 17 centimeters [6.7 inches]. 



From Staruberg, Bavaria, it is reported that the brook-trout seems to 

 make itself at home in the waters of Upper Bavaria, which are well 

 stocked with these fish. At Georgenbaeh, near Starnberg, several fine 

 specimens of this fish have been caught with hook and line. The Starn- 

 bergiish-cultural establishment contains fish of three years — 1882, 188,'), 

 and 1881 — and eggs have already been obtained from the oldest of these 

 fish. The same observation was made here as at Huningue, that this 

 fish does not endure very well the extraction of its eggs. Nevertheless 

 it is a valuable acquisition to the German waters. 



Eainbow-trout {Salmo irideus). — This fish, coming from the rivers 

 of the Pacific coast of the United States, was strongly recommended 

 by Director Haack, of Huningue, and the German Fishery Association 

 gave full attention to it. Owing to the kind efforts of the American 

 fish-culturists, a great number of the eggs of this fish has again been 

 imported into Germany. There is all the more reason to rejoice at this, 

 because the transportation of these eggs is connected with considerable 

 difficulty, asitspawnsin spring, and as, therefore, theeggs must be trans- 

 ported during the hot season of the year. Mr. Blackford, of New York, 

 from whom we received a quantity of rainbow-trout eggs in exchange 

 for German trout eggs, reports that in the Eastern States the rainbow- 

 trout has changed its habits and occasionally begun to spawn in winter, 

 so that he would perhaps be able to send us eggs as early as December. 

 However, the eggs sent by him, and also those sent by Professor Band. 



