NUMBER OP EGGS IN FISH. 



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These all are the specimens I have been 

 enabled up to this time to examine ; I shall 



* Trout, like salmon, carry, on an average, 1000 eggs to one 

 pound of their weight ; but this rule does not apply to trout 

 under a pound. Again, as regards other fish, the heavier they 

 are the more eggs they carry ; therefore I give the weight of the 

 fish I have examined. 



