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Mr. Goode says : 



" DEAR MR. MARSTON, I am much annoyed with myself 

 chiefly, for I ought to have expressed myself more explicitly 

 that my remarks upon the black bass were so misinterpreted. I 

 was speaking solely in reference to planting black bass in salmon 

 streams, and in comment upon Sir James Gibson Maitland's 

 paper upon the culture of Salmonida. The entire drift of my 

 remarks was to the effect that the black bass is a fish with which 

 public fish-culture had nothing to do, being purely an angler's 

 fish, and not one which professional fishermen can take in large 

 quantities for the supply of the public markets. As an angler's 

 fish I believe the black bass to be superior in every respect to any 

 fish you have in Great Britain outside of the salmon family, and 

 I believe that its introduction into streams where pike, perch, 

 roach, and bream are now the principal occupants, can do no 

 possible harm, and would probably be a benefit to all anglers. It 

 is also well suited for large ponds and small lakes, where there is 

 an abundant supply of ' coarse fish/ which a school of them will 

 soon convert into fish by no means * coarse.' If you will kindly 

 refer to my ' Game Fishes of the United States,' p. 12, you will find 

 that my views as to the value of the black bass in my own country 

 are already on record, and I can see no reason why this fish should 

 not be equally valuable in Great Britain. I quote from my own 

 essay as follows : 



" ' Fish culturists have made many efforts to hatch the eggs of 

 the black bass, but have never succeeded. . . . This failure is 

 the less to be regretted since young bass may easily be transported 

 from place to place in barrels of cool water, and when once 

 introduced they soon multiply, if protected, to any desired number. 

 The first experiment in their transportation seems to have been 

 that of Mr. S. T. Tisdale, of East Wareham, Massachusetts, who, 

 in 1850, carried 27 Large-mouths from Saratoga Lake, N.Y., 

 to Agawam, Mass. The custom of stocking streams soon became 

 popular, and, through private enterprise and the labour of State 

 commissioners, nearly every available body of water in New 

 England and the United States has been filled with these fish, 

 and in 1877 they were successfully carried to the Pacific coast. 



