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large, few of them under 20lb., and many of them 30lb. and 
40lb. and upwards. The salmon that are bred in the Bush 
never get larger than 9lb. or 10lb. A large salmon never will 
come from a small breed. A Bush salmon could never grow to 
the size of a Shannon fish, though he were to live to any age.” 
These are subjects that I believe are worthy the attention 
of fish culturists and naturalists, and replies to which can only 
be given by an attentive consideration of the fish in their 
breeding and rearing grounds. Of course, without perfect 
segregation, as is now carried on at Howietoun, observations 
will not be of any material value. It is the field, and not the 
museum naturalist who must be expected to solve these points, 
and, if the propositions I have made are correct, it would be 
worth while for an investigation to be properly carried out into 
whether the same phenomena occurs in other families of fishes, 
or even in other orders of animal life. Will, in short, the spat 
of a small oyster produce an equally fine race to that from 
larger and better fed molluscs ? 
CAN SALMON SPAWN IN THE SEA ? 
Although my main object in undertaking a small trout and 
salmon hatchery at Cheltenham was to ascertain the expense 
such would really entail, and the trouble which would be 
required in bringing such to a satisfactory conclusion, I was 
also, as I have observed, desirous in a small way of trying a few 
experiments which might be practically useful, or solve any 
unsolved question. One of these is, Can salmon spawn in the 
sew? I do not propose entering into the history of all who have 
written for or against this theory or conjecture, but if we turn 
to GesneR (A.D. 1598) we find he remarks that the salmon was 
quite unknown to the Greeks. It is a fish belonging to 
Germany and the inhabitants of the coasts of the German 
Ocean, for from the sea only do such fishes come. Its form is 
well known to the Germans, for which reason but little will be 
said concerning it. It is only necessary to observe that they 
change their name according to the time of the year, or their 
age; that in the spring and through the summer, until St. 
James’s Day, they are called Salm; after that they receive the 
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