484 FisHinc in AMERICAN WATERS. 
lar to the salmon of the rivers, emptying into the River and 
Gulf of St. Lawrence, the real salmon and worthy head of 
the Salmonidee. 
CALIFORNIA SALMON. 
This fish differs from the Eastern salmon in being much 
wider according to its length, the flesh red instead of pink, 
and not so firm as the Sadmo salar. In other particulars it 
is like the salar. It thrives in warmer waters and in streams 
of vegetable bottom; spawns in less time than the Eastern 
fish, and is scarcely so good a fish for the table. On another 
hand, it is a more profitable fish than the Eastern salmon, 
for it grows faster, and in waters of not so frigid a tempera- 
ture; hence it is well adapted to the waters of Pennsylvania, 
and perhaps to those of Maryland and Virginia. 
In 1872, the subject of importing fecundated salmon ova 
from California to the States on the eastern slope was sug- 
gested, and in that year Mr. Livingston Stone—under the 
auspices of the Federal Government, through Spencer F. 
Baird as its commissioner—went to California in August ; 
and, by the aid of the California Fish-Culturist’s Association, 
received the right to erect hatching-houses on the M‘Cloud 
River, three hundred miles north from San Francisco. Hav- 
ing succeeded in importing to Troutdale, New Jersey, several 
thousands of fecundated ova, they were there hatched and 
placed in the Delaware River, where a number of grilse from 
that planting have since been taken; some, it is said, of 
from eight to ten pounds’ weight. Since 1872 many East- 
ern rivers have been stocked with California salmon, and 
it is confidently anticipated that the Delaware and Sus- 
