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detaining them for years in fresh, where instead of 

 losing flesh, they were pronounced to have improved 

 much hoth in size and condition. So exceedingly 

 popular is the striped bass in America, that those 

 watering-places in whose vicinity he is known to 

 abound receive annually an immense influx of visitors, 

 attracted chiefly by the prospect of enjoying this 

 fishing. At Kittihunk even a club-house has been 

 built, and a very large association formed of the prin- 

 cipal gentlemen in and about New York, who spend 

 a great 'portion of their summer vacation at this 

 retreat, and, as I have been informed by many of the 

 members (some of them salmon fishermen of experi- 

 ence), the sport they there have is only second to what 

 they could obtain on Labrador or Canadian salmon 

 rivers. 



I believe that this fish could be most easily intro- 

 duced into English waters, and that he is well deserving 

 of the eifort, for he is very hardy, and I do not think 

 so likely to be affected by the pollution that so many 

 of our streams suffer from ; they also appear to be im- 

 mensely prolific, for traffic, netting, drainage, &c., may 

 have reduced their numbers still they are to be found 

 in great abundance, even in such crowded water- 

 thoroughfares as the Bay of New York, Hudson and 

 East rivers, that any person duly initiated in the 

 necessary mysteries can, at the proper seasons, con- 

 fidently expect a heavy basket as a reward for his 

 trouble, and that within sight of the numerous spires, 

 storehouses, and business haunts of their handsome 

 western metropolis. 



Great and unprecedented trouble has been lately 

 taken successfully to introduce salmon and trout to the 



