350 SMELT FLOUNDER PIKE PERCH. 



serves smelts should be cax^tured from the head of the 

 tideway and turned down. I do not say whether they 

 will breed in fresh water, for that I do not know. 



FLOUNDER. 



Now that we are talking of estuary fish, I see no reason 

 why experiments should not be made with common 

 flounders. They are by no means difficult to transport. 



PIKE PERCH, OR ZANDER. 



{Perca lucioperca. ) 



German : Zandr, Sandra, Sandbarsch, Seeharsch, Schill, Fogasch. 

 Danish : Standart. Norwegian : Gjors. Swedish : Gos. 

 French : Les Sandre. American : The Glass-eyed Pike. 



Many attempts have been made to transport this fish 

 alive to England. My friend Mr. T. E. Sachs has taken 

 immense pains in this matter, and the following is his 

 report to me of successful experiments to bring this fish 

 over alive for his Grace the Duke of Bedford. 



Mr. Sachs wrote the following interesting article in 

 Land and Water, No. 644, p. 476, May 25, 1878 : '' Mr. 

 Dallmer,' chief fishing master of Schleswig-Holstein, re- 

 lates in the " German Fishery Circular " of April, 1878, 

 that he had the honour of being requested by the Presi- 

 dent of the German Fishery Association to supply his 

 Grace the Duke of Bedford with about one hundred 

 small Zander, he having many opportunities of observ- 

 ing the peculiarities of these fish in Schleswig-Holstein. 

 It is well known that these fish are not plentiful in the 

 Elbe and Oder, abound in the Danube, but are not known 

 in the Rhine or Weser, although these two last are 

 equally well suited for this species. In many Schleswig 

 lakes Zander are plentiful, in others not, although con- 



