SALMON TISHEKY AT DOOHULLA. 307 



VI. 



CREATION OF A SALMON FISHEET AT DOOHULLA. 



This is another and a most interesting instance of the 

 manner in which unproductive waters can be made of 

 great value. The DoohuUa lakes in their natural state 

 contained nothing but a few worthless brown trout. By 

 means described below, they were first made into a valuable 

 white trout fishery, and have now been further converted 

 into a very valuable salmon fishery. There are so many 

 instructive facts connected with this experiment, that I 

 cannot do better than publish the letters in which the 

 whole case is contained, and which I gave in the Field 

 about the end of 1863. It will be seen that they afford 

 very strong evidence against the growth of the salmon 

 being so rapid as has been generally supposed, at any rate in 

 many instances. Mr. Ramsbottom being at my house 

 with Mr. YouU, inspecting the acclimatization fish hatchery, 

 in the course of conversation recalled the following facts, 

 which I sent to the Field. To that letter he replied, and 

 explained some facts which I had misapprehended, as also 

 did Mr. Ffennell. 



" Mr. Ramsbottom, among other operations, has had under 

 his charge the stocking of the DoohuUa lakes, in Connemara 



