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BRITISH FRESH-WATER FISHES 



Mr. Wilfred Kennedy landed one of 68 lb. in the Aora, a 

 Norwegian river, in August, 1894. The following particulars 

 of heavy fish taken in the United Kingdom were noted by- 

 Frank Buckland : — 



To which I may add the following from a letter received 

 from Mr. P. D. Malloch, of Perth, while these lines were 

 being written (July, 1902) : " We have got two salmon (in the 

 nets) over 60 lb. last week, and one yesterday 50 lb., only 

 4 ft. I in. long — a great beauty." On June i6th, 1902, a 

 salmon weighing 50 lb. was taken by Mr. Dugdale's keeper 

 with fly on the river Ewe, Rosshire. There may be added 

 here the following authentic instances of large salmon captured 

 by rod and line in Ireland : one of 58 lb., in 1872, on the 

 Shannon ; one of 57 lb., taken on the Suir in 1874 by Michael 

 Maher, a professional fisher ; and one of 54 lb., taken on the 

 Shannon, February 14th, 1903, by Mr. F. Milburn. 



The salmon of British waters is naturally abundant in those 

 of the Atlantic coast of North America ; but on the Pacific 

 coast its place is taken by the quinnat, or Californian salmon 

 {Oncorhynchus quinnat), which it has seemed expedient to 

 systematic ichthyologists to classify in a distinct genus, because 

 it has more than fourteen rays in the anal fin. Attempts have 

 been made to introduce this species into European waters ; but 

 anglers have good cause to pray that the success which is 

 reported to have attended them may be fictitious, because these 

 fish are said never to rise at the fly. 



