Fish Culturists Association 



Maine to fish, and up to the waters of the St. Lawrence, and up 

 those rivers that come into it, had a good many discussions on 

 the subject of whether these larger trout, that were caught in 

 the lakes of Maine, and trout coming from the salt water, the 

 sea-trout, were the salmo fontinalis. Some of them, able men, 

 some of them men of mind, men of discretion, men that could 

 observe, maintained that they were not the same fish, that they 

 were entirely different fish from the salmo fontinalis ; so that the 

 matter was put into the hands of Prof. Agassiz to determine, 

 and he maintained that they were one and the same fish, whether 

 they went to the salt water or the fresh-water seas. 



Mr. Wilmot : But there is one thing that I would recom- 

 mend to all gentlemen about stocking their ponds, and that is 

 to get a stock of eggs from the largest trout they can get, 

 because on the well-known principle that like begets like, you 

 are more apt to have a large class of fish from breeding from 

 large fish than from breeding from small ones. 



Prof. Milner, from the Committee appointed in regard to 

 forming sections, presented a report, which was adopted. 



Mr. Evarts : In order to return the courtesy of our cousins 

 over the line — Mr. Wilmot appearing here himself, and Mr. 

 Witcher having sent his compliments — I move that we, as a 

 bodv, return these compliments through Mr. Wilmot to Mr. 

 Witcher. 



The President : Mr. Witcher is known to many of us and 

 to myself, personally, very well, and there has nobody been 

 more active, nobody exhibits more energy, nobody exhibits 

 more interest in the subject that we all have at heart than he ; 

 and the results that he has achieved bear the highest testimony 

 to his capacity. Mr. Wilmot we all know, and we can almost 

 repeat the same language in regard to him. He has originated 

 many new suggestions in the matter of fish culture, has been 



