THE GAME FISHES OP THE WOELD 



long dug-out, low in the water with a rising bow ending in a point, 

 the rail elevated in sections fore and aft, the keeper propelling it by 

 a paddle. 



The lakes and rivers of Switzerland abound in about fifty 

 species of fish. The salmon can be taken in the Rhine below 

 the Schaffhausen Falls and in the Oar. The Eainbow trout has 

 been introduced with success, and the brown trout is taken in 

 Lake Geneva, iNeuch^tel, Zurich and Constance. Here we 

 find the pike, also in Lake Morol, Lake of Joux and the Black 

 Lake of Friborg. Char and grayhng are also taken, and the 

 gigantic eel-fish known as Wels is found in some of the large 

 lakes, as Bienne and Lake Constance, where fishes eight or ten 

 feet long have been taken, weighing from one hundred and 

 fifty to two hundred pounds. 



The Russians care little for angling as a sport, and practically 

 the only clubs are composed of Enghshmen. The lakes abound 

 with fish, and in the Caucasus the streams afford fine trout 

 fishing. The Laba and Zelentchonk rivers are particularly fine 

 trout streams. Lake Goktcha in the Southern Caucasus has a 

 game fish, Salmo ferox ; while the Ural and Altai streams afford 

 good grayling fishing, the fish being especially large, four or 

 five pounders being taken. In Kamschatka the Pacific saknon 

 abound, but they do not take the fiy. The sauger or zander, 

 a pike-perch, is common in the south of Russia. Two species 

 are known in the old world, and nearly everywhere it is valued 

 in the market and as game. 



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