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CHAPTER IX. 



ON FISH TO BE ACCLIMATISED. 



We have now to consider what fish there are which 

 we can with advantage introduce into our rivers, 

 that are entirely strange to them. And I shall 

 make, perhaps, a somewhat sweeping assertion, when 

 I aver that we have possibly too many in them 

 already, as many of the coarser kinds being to an 

 extent destructive to the better class of fish, we 

 could well spare them; many of these fish are not 

 natural to our waters, having been acclimatised by 

 us ; and beyond those I have already mentioned, 

 there are few, if any, which it would be worth our 

 while to introduce into our first-class rivers. We 

 have already the best freshwater fish in the world 

 ia our salmonidse ; there is but one member of the 

 salmonidse, if we except the Coregoni, and the 

 Northern charr, of any consequence left for us to 

 introduce, and that is the Salmo Hueho. The 

 huchen is said to be a very voracious fish, and 



