36 ANECDOTES OF FISHES 



on its return from the sea in September, weighed 

 thirteen pounds ; and a salmon-fry of April will, 

 in June, weigh four pounds, and in August six 

 pounds. Gleanings of Natural History . 



At the age of five or six years salmon weighs 

 from ten to twelve pounds ; the one represented 

 in Dr. Block's folio edition of his Ichtyology, 

 weighed forty pounds ; it is taken in Sweden at 

 eighty pounds weight; at Denis, in New France, 

 it was seen six feet long. 



The much agitated question, whether whitings 

 or herlings are young salmon, or a distinct spe- 

 cies of fish, seems to be set at rest by a decisive 

 and well authenticated experiment : in May, 

 1820, Mr. Relph, and Mr. John Barnes, marked 

 one thousand six hundred and fifteen fry, by 

 taking off the dead fin, and returned them to 

 their native element. In the ensuing season 

 many of them were recaptured as whitings ; in 

 the second as sea-trout and grilse ; and on Tues- 

 day night week a fine salmon, weighing ten 

 pounds, so marked, was caught at Stainton, and 

 has been seen by a great number of persons : it 

 was exhibited at the public office on Wednesday 

 week. Those who have maintained a contrary 

 doctrine must now, we think, give up their 

 opinion. Chester Chron. 



