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There were many who would introduce new kinds of fish 
to our waters, for three reasons; one, that they were good 
for sport to our anglers ; secondly, that, like the Gold Tench, 
they were pretty; and thirdly, that they were useful. 
Now he must confess he thought the Black Bass was a 
rapacious fish to be introduced. They heard the other day 
of a wonderful collection of fish in the sea, and if science 
would only point out any enormous piece of water in which 
this Black Bass could prey on shoals of fish as large in 
quantity as the Cod off Lofoden Island, where there were 
twenty million in one mile, then the Black Bass might be 
introduced, but until these localities were found it would be 
as well to be cautious. 
Mr. WILLIS BUND said he knew a gentleman on the 
Severn who had for some years, at great expense, hatched 
a larce number of fish and turned them into the water. 
This year, owing to some local jealousies, as soon as ever 
the fish were turned out, a considerable quantity of lime 
was put into the water, and the fish were killed. Of course 
that was an offence which could be dealt with and punished, 
but there was another kind of offence, glanced at in the 
Paper, which they were wholly powerless to prevent, and of 
which they had an instance only lately. A gentleman had 
spent a large sum in artificially breeding and in bringing a 
Trout stream to a very high state of efficiency, when a 
neighbour of his placed in the stream a bucketful of young 
Pike. Of course he could: not more effectually have 
destroyed the work of years, but he was guilty of no legal 
offence whatever. He therefore considered the hint given 
in the Paper was very valuable, that some provision should 
be made to prevent rapacious fish being introduced into 
water not suited for them. Every water should be made 
to produce the best fish it could, and if Salmonidae were 
