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to heart. There were many who would introduce new 

 kinds of fish to our waters, for three reasons ; one, that they 

 were good for sport to our anglers ; secondly, that like the 

 Gold Tench, they were pretty ; and thirdly, that they were 

 useful. Now he must confess he thought the Black Bass 

 was too rapacious a fish to be introduced. They heard the 

 other day of a wonderful collection of fish in the sea, and if 

 science would only point out any enormous piece of water 

 in which this Black Bass could prey on shoals of fish as 

 large in quantity as the Cod off Lofoten Islands where 

 they were told some 1 20 million existed in one mile, then 

 the Black Bass might be introduced, but until these 

 localities were found it would be as well to be cautious. 



Mr. WILLIS BUND said he knew a gentleman on the 

 Severn who had for some years, at great expense, hatched 

 a large number of fish and turned them into the water. 

 This year, owing to some local jealousies, as soon as ever 

 the fish were turned out, a considerable quantity of lime 

 was put into the water, and the fish were killed. Of course 

 that was an offence which could be dealt with and punished, 

 but there was another kind of offence, glanced at in the 

 Paper, which they were wholly powerless to prevent, and of 

 which they had an instance only lately. A gentleman had 

 spent a large sum in artificially breeding and in bringing a 

 Trout stream to a very high state of efficiency, when a 

 neighbour of his placed in the stream a bucketful of young 

 Pike. Of course he could not more effectually have 

 destroyed the work of years, but he was guilty of no legal 

 offence whatever. He therefore considered the hint given 

 in the Paper was very valuable, that some provision should 

 be made to prevent rapacious fish being introduced into 

 water not suited for them. Every water should be made 

 to produce the best fish it could, and if Salmonidae were 



