THE BEST KINDS OF FISH FOE EIVEES. 109 



CHAPTEE VI 



CONSIDEEATIONS ON THE BEST KINDS OF FISH 

 FOE EIVEES. 



THE next points to be considered are the wider dis- 

 semination of the best kinds of fish we at present 

 possess, and the acclimatization of other kinds found 

 in foreign countries, but at present strangers to our 

 waters. 



The best fresh-water fish we have are salmon, 1 

 sea-trout, charr, trout, grayling, burbot, lampreys, 

 perch, eels, flounders, and gudgeons. The tench, 

 carp, bream, dace, roach, jack, &c., require the 

 assistance of cookery, not exactly to make them 

 acceptable, but to make them, let us say, palatable or 

 agreeable. It is difficult to explain the exact estima- 



1 I do not enter here upon the means whereby salmon may be 

 more widely disseminated, and why they are not more plentiful ; 

 the subject is too large for a place in the body of this chapter ; 

 it is so much a subject by itself, that I have so placed it in the 

 Appendix, where those who may be more specially interested in 

 the legal matters, methods of fishing, and other recondite matters 

 which beset the salmon question, may find it. 



