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experiments have failed, and the ova never have become 

 productive? Both in salt water and fresh water I am 

 afraid it will not succeed; that is my opinion. 



2761 I asked you whether you were aware that ex- 

 periments had been tried to propagate salmon in salt 

 water, and that those experiments have not succeeded, 

 inasmuch as the ova had not produced the young sal- 

 mon? They have not succeeded. 



2762 Are not you aware that those experiments have 

 succeeded frequently in fresh water? In bringing the 

 fish to life they have succeeded. 



2763 Would not that tend to show that it was im- 

 possible that salmon should propagate in salt water? 

 There may be different qualities of fish. There may be 

 sea fish and there may be fresh water fish. 



FOOD OF THE SALMON IN THE SEA PROFESSOR JOHN 

 QUECKETT, COLLEGE OF SURGEONS. 



3641 EARL DUCIE: Is it your belief that a salmon 

 which has been bred in a river travels to any distance 

 from it when he enters the sea? I think salmon travel 

 along the coast, but they endeavour to return to the 

 river where they were bred. 



3642 CHAIRMAN: They usually do so? Yes, as far 

 as I can make out. They travel some considerable dis- 

 tance into the deep water, and into the sea, for their 

 food, which is, I believe, essentially the ova of the 

 echinus or sea-urchin. That is what I have always 

 traced in their stomachs, and I know, from the locality 

 in which those sea-urchins are found, that the salmon 

 must go into deep water, some considerable distance 

 from the shore, to get them. 



3643 At what depth does the echinus, upon the 

 ova of which the salmon feed, live in the sea? They 

 live in from six to twenty fathoms. 



