150 FISH CULTURE. 



Ombre Chevalier, and must perforce accept my know- 

 ledge of it from foreign sources ; yet to show how, 

 upon matters of this nature, authorities may disagree, 

 I may here mention the fact, that when Monsieur 

 Coumes, the superintendent at Huningue, was a 

 short time since in London on a mission from the 

 French Government, he certainly stated that they 

 were actually naturalizing this fish to the French 

 rivers, herein greatly confirming the views which I 

 have so often expressed with respect to the intro- 

 ducing of some of the charr to rivers. 



Much has been written of the Lucio Perca — the 

 pike-perch, or Sander. This, again, is a very voracious 

 and destructive fish. It is a very fair fish for the 

 table. It shows no sport to the angler, 1 allowing itself 

 to be drawn from the water with scarce a struggle ; 

 and it is excessively difficult to transport, owing, ap- 

 parently, to the small amount of vigorous vitality in 

 both the fish and its eggs. M. Ekstrom failed in 

 several attempts to transplant this fish from Sweden 

 to Denmark, as the plan of artificial fecundation 

 appears rarely to succeed, and the fish itself will not 

 long exist when taken from the water. This is the 



i I mention this point, as in acclimatizing any new fish, its capa- 

 bilities, whether desirable or not, should, I think, be examined in 

 every point of view. 



