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river Nene. They were from four to seven inches in length. 

 The river has a number of small backwaters, with swift currents 

 and gravelly bottoms, and also deep, quiet lioles. Fishing will be 

 prohibited for some years, until the fish are well established. I 

 think the Nene and the Welland are the only rivers in England 

 where the bass have been put; but they are in several lakes." — 

 {London Fishing Gazette, December 1, 1883.) 



I assisted Herr Von dem Borne with such information 

 as subsequently enabled him to successfully cultivate the 

 black bass in Germany. The following is the account of 

 his first installment. 



" Of the seven large-mouth, and forty-five small-mouth bass 

 Avhich Mr. Eckardt, Jr., brought from America in February, 1883, 

 the greater number died, probably in consequence of the long 

 journey, so that this spring there remained only three of the 

 former and ten of the latter, which I placed in two ponds, sup- 

 plied with gravel beds for spawning." — (Max Von dem Borne, 

 Circular No. 4, 1884, German Fishery Association, Berlin, Jime, 

 1884.) 



The ponds of Von dem Borne, alluded to above, are 

 located at Berneuehen, Germany. On June 15, 1884, he 

 wrote : 



" To-dsty I had the satisfaction of finding that the three large 

 fish had spawned, and the pond actually swarms with fry. I 

 have caught with a small net more than two thousand, and have 

 put them into another pond which is free from other fish. I have 

 no doubt that next spring the small-mouth bass will spawn, and 

 that the experiment will be successful." — (Bull. V. 8. Fish. Com., 

 IV, 1884, 219.) 



In June, 1885, he said : 



"My thirteen black bass have spawned. I have caught 11,800 

 of the fry, and placed them in ponds that have no other fish." 



