Rainbow Trout 257 



this form of the rainbow trouts that the waters 

 of the Eastern and Middle Western states were 

 stocked, the first shipment from the McCloud 

 River occurring in 1870. Thus we have had 

 the rainbow in the East over thirty-one years, and 

 while many anglers and fish culturists are dis- 

 posed to believe that the plant has been a failure, 

 particularly as a food supply, other rodsters who 

 have essayed this fish in waters adapted to it, are 

 inclined to place it above all other trouts in game 

 qualities. True, many failures have occurred 

 when the fish has been placed in unsuitable lakes 

 or streams, especially where easy access to deep 

 water or to the sea occurs. It is by nature a 

 sea-running fish, but it will not, or rather does 

 not, go down to salt water when living in streams 

 several hundred miles from the ocean although 

 a free course lies before it. In this respect it 

 resembles closely the habit of our Eastern charr, — 

 the red-spotted form, — which always visits the 

 salt water when living in short coastwise streams, 

 the mouths of which flow into the estuaries or 

 bays, as occurs on Long Island and in several of 

 the Eastern states, Massachusetts particularly. 



For many years the subject of the original 

 habitat of the salmon — whether in the ocean or 



