BULLETIN OF THE UNITED STATES PISH COMMISSION. 367 



Landlocked salmon, 181 



Date. 



Apr. 5, 1878 



John's River 



Linville River 



Mayo River. 



Dan River 



Ponds nc. ir Charlotte 



Ponds near Greensborough 



VtPiuls near Morganton 



Ponds mar Salisbury 



Total 



* Living in ninety-one of the ninety-six counties of the State. 



Raleigh, K 0., July 28, 1884. 



Number. 



1,400 

 8,000 

 2, 000 

 1,000 



15,500 



12i>.— A FOREIGNER'S OPINION OF AMERICAN FISH-CUIiTURE. 



By Sir LYON PLAYFAIR. 



[From the Angler's Note-Book, No. VI, 1884, pp. 91, 92.) 



Iii regard to the special subject of carp, much progress has been made 

 in the United States by the introduction of the two German varieties. 

 It is curious that they should have done so before the mother coun- 

 try, for the remains of old fish-ponds are spread over England, and are 

 almost always near the old monasteries. Tens of thousands of old carp- 

 ponds once existed in England, but as the carp were no longer culti- 

 vated they reverted to tbeir wild state and became valueless. In China 

 and Germany the culture of carp is still an important industry. The 

 United States in introducing the culture wisely selected the German 

 species. In 1882 the carp bred in the commission ponds at Washing- 

 ton were distributed in lots of twenty to ten thousand applicants in 

 every State and Territory. The average distance to which they were 

 sent was 900 miles, and the total milage of shipments was 9,000,000 

 miles; while the actual distance traversed by the transportation railway 

 cars was 31,000 miles. Already German carp have l>,en introduced 

 into thirty thousand separate waters. 



But I do not wish to limit my letter to carp by any means. Aqna- 

 culture has become an important affair of the State among our trans- 



