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Overfishing has unfortunately very much reduced the supply 

 of the speckled trout in many of our waters and has rendered 

 re-stocking operations extremely desirable. 



The Mabston Trout 



Another verj' beautiful though somewhat rare chan-, closely 

 connected with fontinalis, is found in some of our waters and is 

 scientifically known as Scdveltnu^ marstoni. Specimens of this fish 

 have never been taken so far as known, much over a pound in 

 weight. Their distinguishing features are a marked fork in the 

 caudal fin, almost as prominent as that of the Namaycush, a body 

 more slender than the brook trout, and an extremely deep red 

 coloring on the lower part of the sides as well as the belly of the 

 spawning male. 



Mr. John W. Titcomb, Chief Fish Culturist of New York 

 State, calls it the Canadian Red Trout and says: "The red trout are 

 found in Lake Saccacomi and three 'Red Lakes' adjacent to 

 Saccacomi, all in the township of St. Alexis des Monts, Maskinonge 

 County, Province of Quebec. These four lakes all contain the brook 

 trout, S. fontinalis. and in Saccacomi the brook trout attains a 

 weight of five or six pounds. In two of the Red Lakes there are also 

 found the yellow perch (not an unusual thing for trout lakes in 

 the Province of Quebec). Lake Saccacomi is not connected with 

 the Red Lakes, although from the topography it might have been 

 connected in some earlier 8ge. The Red Lakes are all connected 

 and flow in a different direction from Saccacomi. Evermann says 

 the red trout bears a close ressemblance to the Salvelinus aiireolus, 

 from Little Averill Pond, Vt., and aureolus from Flood's Pond, 

 Maine, and may be identical with Carman's S. marstoni. It has 

 also been pronounced identical with a "red trout'' f rom Decalonnes 

 Township, Quebec, and with the auredu^ of Sunapee Lake, X. H." 



Speaking of this fish in 1902, before the,North American Fish 

 and Game Protective Association, the writer of this paper said 

 that 'Tt was his impression that the distribution of this fish was 

 very much more extended throughout northern Canada than 

 generally supposed". He had seldom heard of it rising to the 

 angler's flies, and its deep water habitat made it diflScult to dis- 

 cover. Still within the last few years quite a number of different 

 specimens of what he believed to be the same fish had passed 

 through his hands. Some of these he had sent to the late Mr. 

 A. N. Cheney, and some to Professor Samuel Garman of the 

 Museum of Comparative Zoologj^, Cambridge, Mass. Some of 

 these specimens came fr^m lakes in the vicinitj' of Rimouski, P. Q., 

 and were given to him by Messrs. Sampson and Jordan of the 

 Quebec Piscatorial Association, which leased the lakes in question. 

 Another came from a lake on the Tourilli tract, and was given 

 him by Mr. Carter Harrison, Mayor of Chicago, who had caught 

 it, in company with his friend, Mr. Graham H. Harris. Mr. C. 

 Panet Angers cf Quebec had bix)ught him another of these fishes, 

 which he had taken cut of a lake on the territory of the Lauren- 

 tides Fish and Game Club of Quebec. A description of what 

 appears to have been the identical red trc ur, or rather charr, known 



