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tributaries thereof, which do not afford j^ood aiiKliiiir for 

 salmon, but which, nevertheless, are well suited for the 

 breeding and nurture of non-migratory trout. These 

 trout streams when preserved will doubtless afford 

 excellent angling for those who have not opportunity of 

 trying with the rod and line for the larger game fish, 

 the salmon. 



It is therefore very satisfactory to learn that so many 

 anglers have taken out trout licenses. There have 

 been issued during the season of 1879 : — 



In the Severn, 4,000; Towy, 1,754; Usk, 1,746; 

 Fowey, 570; Dart, 398; Teign, 324; Cleddy, 238; 

 Ehymney, 73. 



Common trout are now plentiful in Australia and 

 New Zealand, and I believe I may fairly say that these 

 colonies owe the existence and almost abundance of 

 trout at the Antipodes to myself. In Jan., 1864, when 

 my friend Mr. Youl was packing salmon eggs in the ice 

 on board the ship Norfolk, 1 asked him to allow me 

 to pack a box of common trout eggs in the ice among 

 the salmon boxes. Mr. Youl now often laughingly 

 remarks, '• I was then nearly pitching them over- 

 board into the dirty water of the docks." Luckily he 

 did not do so, as I have every reason to believe that 

 the trout born from these very eggs are the origin of 

 all the trout now in New Zealand and Australia. I 

 was only able to supply the ova (from twelve to fifteen 

 hundred) of one pair of fish. I caught the fish myself, 

 after a very careful arrangement of the nets (for the 

 fish were very shy), in a branch of the Itchen which 

 runs through the garden of Admiral Keppel, at Bishop- 

 stoke, near Winchester. 



Mr. Francis Francis at the same time sent Mr. Youl 

 some eggs ; these were, I believe, those of the Boiige 



