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FISHING IN AMEEICAN WATEES. 



knowledge that it is the most voracious of all fresh-water 

 fishes, the story gains credence. 



It is a bottom-feeding fish, like the catfish, and, like that, it 



No. 1. Estuary Catfish. No. 2. The Silure, or Silurus glanis of the Danube. 



is a great gormandizer, thinning off the frogs, and proving a 

 perfect terror to all young fishes of the ordinary families. 

 As fattening this fish for market is very expensive, it would 

 scarcely pay to import it for stocking any of the American 

 waters but the Mississippi and Missouri, where it would form 

 one more family of the catfish species, and make up their sum 

 to six varieties of this ugly-looking delicacy. The London 

 Times states that the Silurus glanis rises to the ponderosity 

 of over 300 Ibs., and " has been known to reach the enormous 

 weight of 54 Ibs. in four years ; that its flesh somewhat re- 

 sembles veal in appearance, and partakes of the rich flavor 

 of the eel." 



SECTION THIRD. 



FISHES FOE ACCLIMATIZING IN AMEEICAN EIVEES. 



The INDE, a fish somewhat resembling the shad, grows to 

 the weight of nine pounds ; subsists on aquatic plants and in- 

 sects ; affords good sport to the angler. It is found in Scan- 

 dinavian waters. 



