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to be drawn from the water with scarce a struggle ; 

 and it is said to he excessively difficult to transport, 

 owing, apparently, to the small amount of vigorous 

 vitality in hoth the fish and its eggs. M. Ekstrom 

 failed in several attempts to transplant this fish from 

 Sweden to Denmark, as the plan of artificial fecunda- 

 tion appears rarely' to succeed, and the fish itself 

 will not long exist when taken from the water. This 

 is the account we have of it. How far modern 

 science may be enabled to cope with the difficulty, 

 I will not pretend to say. The French pisciculturists, 

 however, who have mxich better opportunities of pro- 

 curing it from Germany than we have, do not seem 

 to have yet acclimatised it. The voracity of this fish 

 need not be a bar to its introduction, as it is more 

 of a lake than a river fish, and it might be placed 

 in lakes, ponds, and such waters as are already 

 tenanted by pike and perch, where it could do but 

 little comparative harm, and yet be a better fish at 

 any rate for the table than the pike or perch, though 

 of much less use to the angler. Its advent could 

 hardly fail to be regarded favourably. I was, some- 

 time since, applied to by the Acclimatisation Society 

 to undertake the transportation of this fish from 

 Berlin, where it is plentiful, and has a good reputa- 

 tion ; and, from what was stated at the time, it would 



