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So far, then, as our information goes, it indicates a restric- 
tion to salmonoid culture more close, even, than is the case in 
America. Most of the advertisers offer fish one and two years old, 
many of them eggs; and there are many offers of live food mate- 
rials and water plants. 
It does not appear that the practice of growing any species of 
fish for market has yet established itself in England, and the use 
which seems to be anticipated by fish culturists of their products 
is the stocking of open waters for the purpose of angling, in 
which field Englishmen lead the world. 
In angling, however, and in the use of the booty thus secured 
there is by no means the same limitation in species as we observe 
in the matter of artificial culture. The so-called “coarse” fishes 
(a term including all species except salmon and trout) are high- 
ly esteemed as objects of pursuit and material for food. Not 
only perch and pike, but the members of the Cyprinoid family, 
carp, tench, bream, roach, chub, etc., are thought proper objects 
for the exercise of the sportsman’s skill. ‘They are protected by 
the law, which provides an annual close-time, from March 15 to 
June 15, for all fresh water fish other than pollan, trout, char 
and eels; and the sporting journals overflow with notes of their 
capture, of which the successful anglers appear to be very proud. 
The conditions in English waters appear to be exceedingly favor- 
able to the growth of fish and most species reach a larger size 
than is common with the corresponding species in America. The 
universal practice of weighing captures and reporting them af- 
fords a wealth of evidence in this matter. Among the numerous 
reports in the Fishing Gazette of London, we have lately ob- 
served, for instance, the recorded capture of chubs weighing from 
four pounds to seven pounds, fourteen ounces; tench weighing 
six pounds; bream of nine and one-half to eleven 2<d one-half 
pounds; barbel of two and one-half or four and one-half pounds 
for small, and twelve or twelve and one-half for large; roach of 
three pounds, three ounces; carp of thirteen pounds, twelve 
ounces; and pike of thirty-six and one-half pounds. 
The most important fresh water fishery of England and 
Wales is undoubtedly the salmon fishery There are about thirty 
rivers in which salmon are now caught. No complete statistics 
of the catch have been published, but reports from eighteen rivers 
