468 BULLETIN 'OF THE UNITED STATES FISH COMMISSION. 



Salmon and trout in Scotland. — Mr. John Anderson, writing 

 from Glasgow, December 6, 1884, says : In the River Tay last week, while 

 capturing salmon for our hatchery, we caught a large fish weighing no 

 less than 80 pounds, the finest and largest salmon ever caught in Scot- 

 land. It was a clean-run fish from the sea. Six years ago the largest 

 salmon caught in the Tay weighed 40 pounds ; three years later the 

 highest weight was GO pounds; next year, 65; and last year, 76 pounds. 



The Loch Lomond Angling Association is trying to restock this queen 

 of the Scottish lakes with the bsst fiuny tribes worth an angler's atten- 

 tion, and to keep every stream free from pollution. 



Shell-fish wanted foe Utah.— Mr. B. S. Yaeger has a salt-water 

 lake at Goshen, Utah, in which he proposes to try oysters, shrimps, 

 crabs, '&c, from the Atlantic Ocean. The lake is half a mile wide and a 

 mile long. The water being as salt as that of the ocean, he thinks there 

 is good probability of success. t 



CoREGrONUS albula eggs from Germany. — By direction of Herr 

 von Behr 50,000 eggs of G. albula were started on the 11th of January, 

 1885, from Berneuchen, Germany, for the U. S. Fish Commission. The 

 eggs were packed by Max von dem Borne and addressed to the care of 

 E. G. Blackford, New York City. 



The eggs arrived in New York by the steamer Werra, on Saturday, 

 January 24, and upon being opened at Cold Spring Harbor by Mr. Fred 

 Mather, were found to be in good order. Mr. Mather was instructed on 

 January 31st to repack and forward the eggs to Mr. Charles G. Atkins. 

 February 3d Mr. Atkins reported their safe arrival at Bucksport, Me.; 

 but on the 6th he added : 



"Mr. Buck reports 1,417 of the whitefish eggs (C. albula) dead on un- 

 packing, and some others apparently in bad condition. Evidently, as 

 a whole, the invoice is not in as good condition as I supposed when I 

 first opened it." 



Mr. Atkins was instructed to hatch the eggs, and plant the fish under 



the directions of Hon. Eugene Hale. July 10th he reported the results 



as follows : 



1885. 

 Feb. 3. Received eggs of Coregonus albula in fair condition 50,000 



Dead on unpacking 300 



Subsequent losses 9, 700 



April — . Liberated in Heart Pond, Hancock County, Maine 15,000 



24. Liberated in Lake Hebron, Monson, Piscataquis County, 



Maine 25, 000 



50,000 



Distinguishing the sex of carp.* — There are two methods for 

 distinguishing the sex of carp which 1 have tried, and in which I place 

 considerable reliance. They are: 



(1) By their heads. The head of the male carp is a little shorter, 



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See F. C. Bulletin, 1885, p. 37. 



