58 Salmon at the Antipodes. 



different streams with salmon fry, to take the 

 place of those netted for consumption. . . . 

 One of these, on a branch of the Columbia 

 river, has an apparatus capable of hatching at 

 one time 20,000,000 eggs." 



From this it will be seen that energetic 

 efforts are being made by the Government of 

 the United States to maintain in their rivers 

 the supply of salmon, which from too close 

 fishing has been diminishing for some years. 



It would be interesting to know in what 

 rivers the salmon are found as far south as 

 30 deg., as stated here by M. Wattel. Should 

 the statement be correct, as to their reaching 

 so far south, the fact will have an important 

 bearing upon the question of the acclimatiza- 

 tion of the Californian salmon in rivers having 

 high temperatures, not only in Australia but 

 also in Europe, South Africa, South America, 

 and possibly even in India. 



