484 FISHIXG IN AMERICAN WATERS. 



lar to the salmon of the rivers, emptying into the River and 

 Gulf of St. Lawrence, the real salmon and worthy head o'f 

 the Salmonidce. 



CALIFORNIA SALMON. 



This fish differs from the Eastern salmon in being much 

 wider according to its length, the flesh red instead of pink, 

 and not so firm as the Salmo salar. In other particulars it 

 is like the salar. It thrives in warmer waters and in streams 

 of vegetable bottom ; spawns in less time than the Eastern 

 fish, and is scarcely so good a fish for the table. On another 

 hand, it is a more profitable fish than the Eastern salmon, 

 for it grows faster, and in waters of not so frigid a tempera- 

 ture ; hence it is well adapted to the waters of Pennsylvania, 

 and perhaps to those of Maryland and Virginia. 



In 1872, the subject of importing fecundated salmon ova 

 from California to the States on the eastern slope was sug- 

 gested, and in that year Mr. Livingston Stone under the 

 auspices of the Federal Government, through Spencer F. 

 Baird as its commissioner went to California in August ; 

 and, by the aid of the California Fish-Culturist's Association, 

 received the right to erect hatching-houses on the M'Cloud 

 River, three hundred miles north from San Francisco. Hav- 

 ing succeeded in importing to Troutdale, New Jersey, several 

 thousands of fecundated ova, they were there hatched and 

 placed in the Delaware River, where a number of grilse from 

 that planting have since been taken ; some, it is said, of 

 from eight to ten pounds' weight. Since 1872 many East- 

 ern rivers have been stocked with California salmon, and 

 it is confidently anticipated that the Delaware and Sus- 



