BULLETIN OF THE UNITED 8TATES PISH COMMISSION. 349 



HERRING. 



Yearly statement of the number of shad and herring inspected in the Washington market 

 during the thirteen years 1873 to 1885, inclusive. 



Tear. 



1881 



1882 



1883 



1884 



1885 



Total 



Shad. 



458, 30S 

 350, 223 

 201,474 

 231,111 

 125, 458 



Herring. 



9, C33, 568 

 6, 487, si 5 

 4, 879,473 

 5,630,812 



9, SI 3, 541 



4,576, 4.'. 7 05, 501. 330 



. American trout in Norway.* — At the suggestion of Mr. Land- 

 mark, inspector of fisheries, the Norwegian Assembly {Storthing) in 

 1882 appropriated a sum for making experiments with the so called 

 American trout (Salmo fontinalis), which, both in its home and in those 

 countries where it has been recently introduced, is favorably known as 

 a rapidly- growing and hardy fish, being especially adapted to cultiva- 

 tion in ponds and small lakes. During the following winter (1882-'83) 

 this appropriation was used to obtain some roe of this fish from a hatch- 

 ing-house near New York, whence it was sent to Norway by one of the 

 steamers of the Thingvalla line. Only a small quantity of the roe per- 

 ished during the voyage, and the remainder was hatched here toward 

 spring in a small hatching-apparatus prepared by Mr. Landmark. The 

 resulting fry later in spring were placed in three specially-prepared 

 ponds in the neighborhood, at Koken, Hurum, and Fron. Sonic daysago 

 the fish in these ponds were examined, and it appeared that also with 

 us the Salmo font i nails had maintained its reputation for rapid -row Ih. 

 In one of the ponds belonging to B. Kjekstad, in Roken, the fish bad 

 reached the very unusual length, for so young an age, of 18^ centi- 



""Amerikansk Orret." A clipping from a Norwegian newspaper. Translated from 

 the Danish by Herman Jacobsox. 



