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resulting very large increase in the value of the fishing industry 
of Japan may be looked for in a few years. 
In 1902 the United States government forwarded to Japan 
at the request of the British Ambassador at Tokyo a lot of 
25,000 brook trout eggs. There were hatched in Japan and the 
fry were placed in the river that flows from Yumoto to Lake 
Chuzenji, near Nikko, where they have become well established. 
Under date of January 22, 1906, Lieut. Colonel C. V. Hume, 
the British military attache at Tokyo, forwarded a splendid 
specimen in alcohol and wrote as follows regarding the only 
Asiatic colony of American Salvelinus fontinalis : 
“These trout afforded very good sport during the months of 
May, June and July (1905), and a large number were taken, 
rather too many I am afraid. They were strong, well-shaped 
fish, in excellent condition and averaging about one-quarter 
pound in weight. One of the Japanese fishermen informed me 
that he had taken one of over a pound, but during the four days 
I was on the river in June I never saw one approaching that 
weight. The great bulk of the fish caught were taken by three 
Japanese fishermen who fished for the hotels at Chuzenji and 
Yumoto, and I have seen them with baskets of over thirty fish, 
all taken with rod and line. My best day was twenty. The fish 
take the fly readily and are not as shy as the brown trout of the 
British streams to which my trout fishing has hitherto been con- 
fined. ‘They are sometimes slow to move and will not take till 
the fly has been presented to them three or four times. The 
most killing fly is a somewhat crude one dressed by the native 
fishermen. They also take, among other flies, the March Brown, 
the Blue Dun, and the Teal with yellow body. The Japanese 
fishermen also take them with a bright yellow natural fly and by 
dipping with a black water caterpillar, both found in the river. 
A fly-spoon is also useful for the deeper reaches.” 
CHINA. 
Col. James L. Rodgers, a member of the Society and now 
American consul-general at Shanghai, China, reports that the 
Chinese government, through all of its multitudinous degrees or 
branches, does absolutely nothing, so far as he can learn, for 
fish culture or fish preservation. ‘There are innumerable private 
