92 FISH FARMING '. 



CHAPTER VIII. 

 RAINBOW, AND OTHER FOREIGN TROUT. 



I think this a convenient opportunity for dealing with the 

 matter of introducing rainbow trout, Salmo irideus, and other 

 foreign trout into British waters. I have previously ex- 

 ' plained the necessity of exercising caution when introduc- 

 ing any trout other than the brown trout of this country into 

 any new waters or into any waters in which it is proposed to 

 increase the stock of sporting fish. It must not be thought 

 from this that I am against the introduction of foreign trout ; 

 nothing of the kind. As a matter of fact, I am a strong 

 advocate of stocking suitable waters with rainbows, but 

 only suitable waters; and, this being so>, it is as well that I 

 should give some opinion as to what I consider are suitable 

 waters. 



There is little or no doubt that the introduction of foreign 

 trout into our waters received a well-deserved check through 

 the injudicious planting of Salvelinus fontinalis some years 

 ago. This fish, which is generally known as the American 

 brook trout, and was accepted in this country as a trout, is 

 really a char, and one of the best and handsomest of all the 

 chars. It is indigenous to those regions lying east of the 

 Allegheny Mountains and the Great Lake district extending 

 from Georgia on the south to Labrador on the north. In 

 America they have been widely distributed by artificial intro- 

 duction and have done remarkably well in many States, in- 

 cluding Nebraska, Colorado', Nevada, and California. English 

 fish-culturists and fishery owners were much impr.sred by thdr 



