29 
years not a Salmon was seen. In 1866, or thereabouts, the 
Commissioners of Connecticut began to plant Salmon in 
this river, and four years afterwards they began to appear. 
In the first year 500 fine Salmon, of 15 lbs. to 20 lbs. each, 
were taken; in the following year almost an equal number. 
Since that the Commissioners of the States have discon- 
tinued Salmon culture in that river, the supply has again 
fallen off, and the river might now be considered practically 
deprived of its Salmon again. He simply wished to adda 
word in confirmation of what Sir James Maitland and Dr. 
Day had said concerning American Bass. Although he 
did not like to say anything against a fish which was a 
countryman of his own, he thought it was a fish which 
interested only the private individuals who were able and 
willing to feed him, and were willing to pay any sum for 
the gratification they found in angling. So far as fish 
with which public fish culturists should deal, the Black Bass 
_ had no claims whatever, unless they put him into the same 
stream with Pike, and let them fight it out together. 
Mr. W. OLDHAM CHAMBERS, seeing Professor Brown 
Goode on the platform, thought perhaps he would have 
given the Conference the benefit of his experience with the 
Salmo sebago. A few months ago Professor Baird sent him 
over fifteen thousand eggs of the land-locked Salmon, in 
the hope that they would form an important feature in 
fish breeding in this country, but he said nothing or little 
about the Salmo sebago. He thought there were many 
rivers in England which were completely cut off from the 
sea, and if the land-locked Salmon could be introduced 
into them, or into the Broads of Norfolk, it would be very 
advantageous. 
Professor G. BROWN GOODE remarked that his colleague 
Mr. Earle might be able to give more definite information 
