REMINISCENCES OF THE FISHERIES IN SOUTH 
AMERICA. 
BY Jr aWien LEC OMB: 
Mr. Titcomb gave an evening’s entertainment in an inform- 
al talk illustrated by lantern slides, depicting fishing scenes on 
his voyage from New York to Buenos Ayres and in Argentina. 
In addition to scenes illustrative of the fisheries, his travels and 
explorations throughout the ‘country, including a trip to Par- 
aquay, were interestingly illustrated and explained. 
From September 1, 1903, until June 1, 1904, Mr. Titcomb 
was in the employ of the Argentine Government to explore the 
waters of Argentina and make recommendations with reference 
to the introduction of desirable species of food fish. His explor- 
ations covered a large part of the country froin the province of 
Cordoba on the north to the northern border of Patagonia in the 
territory of Neuquen, in the southern part of the country. He 
ascended the La Plata and Paraguay Rivers to Asuncion, Par- 
aguay. 
While in the country he built what is probably the first fish 
hatchery in South America on a tributary of the Limay river, 
near Lake Nahuel Huapi. It is constructed out of hand-made 
lumber. Before his departure from the country eggs of four spe- 
cies of Salmonidae had been transported from the United States 
and placed in the hatchery with a loss of less than ten per cent. 
The loss in hatching and previous to distribution was very slight. 
The success in transportation merits special mention because it 
is probable that these eggs were carried a longer distance than 
has heretofore been recorded in the history of fish culture. An- 
other feature to be considered is the fact that the eggs were taken 
from a climate where the waters were extremely cold, across the 
equator, and then during warm weather, one hundred leagues 
across the hot sands of the territory of Neuquen to be hatched 
at just the opposite season of the year from that in which they 
would have been hatched under natural conditions. 
The work inaugurated by Mr. Titcomb is being successfully 
continued under the direction of E. A. Tulan, a member of the 
American Fisheries Society, formerly superintendent of the fish- 
cries station at Leadville, Colorado. 
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