22 FAMILIAR FISH, THEIR HABITS AND CAPTURE 



Lakes region as far as Minnesota, and in Canada 

 from the Labrador peninsula to the Saskatchewan. 

 Owing to its strong nature and ability to adapt itself 

 to new surroundings, it has been planted in waters to 

 which it is not native, and has thriven there wonder- 

 fully. Thus it has been successfully transplanted to 

 streams in Minnesota, Wisconsin, Colorado, Wyom- 

 ing, and California, and has increased there ; but, 

 strangely enough, attempts to introduce it in English 

 waters have not been an absolute success. I quote 

 on this point Mr. R. B. Marston, editor of the Fish- 

 ing Gazette, London : " Millions of fry and yearlings 

 of Salmo fontinalis have been put into English 

 rivers, and I know of no single instance where the 

 attempt to stock a river or stream with them has 

 been successful. After a time, not much more than 

 a year as a rule, they disappear. I have seen a long 

 stretch of a trout stream alive with thousands of 

 healthy two-year- and three-year-old fontinalis one 

 season, and the next there was not one to be seen ; 

 and yet they do well in both this country and in Ger- 

 many when kept in trout-breeding ponds, and so our 

 fish breeders keep on breeding them and selling them. 

 I suspect the real secret of their non-success in our 

 rivers is that they find the water in the summer 

 months too warm for them." 



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