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THE CANADIAN SPOILSMAN AND NATURALIST. 



The party returned to the club house with 

 twenty odd brace of partridge, having seen 

 the traces of caribou, bear, beaver, otter, 

 marten and muskrat, this last one in 

 abundance ; and being perfect!)'' satisfied that 

 they could be shot and trapped, with time and 

 perseverence. Fish were also in abundance ; 

 red trout, from one pound to six ; dcre of two 

 to five pounds and pike from ten to twenty- 

 five pounds, could be seen. Trout pilling 

 into a narrow by thousands ; they could easily 

 have been killed with an oar, only for the 

 close season. The part}' arrived home in good 

 time, all the better tor the trip, and desirous 

 of returning again at the first goodoportunity. 

 If one could only be given the chance of 

 killing a caribou or a moose, Mr. Editor, how 

 the poor fellows would be feasted, and many 

 of our friends would come in for a part of the 

 spoil ; in the mean time, I remain, 



A Lover op Out-Door Sport. 



INTERNATIONAL FISHERIES EXHIBI- 

 TION, LONDON, 1883. 



conference on jdne 21, 1883. 

 (Continued from page 260.) 



Mr. W. Oltutam Chambers, seeing Professor 

 Brown Goode on the platform, thought per- 

 haps he would have given the Conference the 

 benefit of his experience with the Salmo sebago. 

 A few months ago Professor Baird sent him 

 over fifteen thousand eggs of the land-locked 

 Salmon, in the hope that they would form an 

 important feature in fish breeding in this 

 country, but he said nothing or little about 

 the Salmo sebago. He thought there were 

 many rivers in England which were com- 

 pletely cut oft" from the sea, and if the land- 

 locked Salmon could be introduced into them, 

 or into the Broads of Norfolk, it would be 

 Very advantageous. 



Professor G. Brown Goooe remarked that 

 his colleague Mr. Earle might be able to give 

 more definite information concerning the land- 

 locked Salmon than he could, but at the same 

 time he should like to make up for his de- 

 tractions of the Black Bass by saying a word 

 or two in favour of the former fish. It was 

 held in high esteem by his countrymen, as 

 mignt be judged by the fact that the United 

 States Commissioners had for some years 

 carried on a hatching establishment on Grand 

 Lake Stream and the subordinate streams on 



other lakes in Maine for the propagation ot 

 the eggs of this fish. The young fry had been 

 introduced into many smaller streams and 

 lakes in (he Northern States. The experi- 

 ment had not been worked out to the utmost 

 extent yet, but there was every reason to 

 believe that the land-locked Salmon was going 

 to be extremely valuable in the northern lakes, 

 and he saw no reason why it should not lie 

 equally valuable in the lakes of Scotland. Mr. 

 Wilmot was equally familiar with this fish, 

 for it might be said to be more abundant in 

 British North America than in the States. It 

 was undoubtedly the same race as the Salmo 

 solar. In some instances it had become land- 

 locked by the erection of dams within the 

 memory of man, in other instances it had 

 become land-locked by natural causes before 

 or soon after the settlement of the country, 

 whilst in other instances, again, it was not 

 land-locked by any artificial obstructions, but 

 remained without airy obstacle to its visiting 

 the sea save the great distance it would have 

 to traverse. It lived in the head-waters of 

 some of the large rivers. The same might be 

 said, to some extent, of the red-spotted Trout, 

 or Char (Salmo fontinalis), which in the 

 northern parts of Canada and Nova Scotia 

 descended to the sea, where it lived during a 

 large part of the year, and was known as the 

 Sea Trout, and was a great favourite of 

 anglers. It inhabited the lower stretches ot 

 rivers and streams, and frequently descended 

 into the sea ; those which did get into the sea 

 were considered to be very fine. After passing 

 the limit of Long Island, which was the limit 

 of the distribution of Salmon, the same barrier 

 of warm temperature which seemed to keep 

 the Salmon from going up the large rivers, 

 prevented the red-spotted Trout from descend- 

 ing from the mountains to the sea ; and it 

 had really become land-locked by reason of 

 temperature barriers in the southern part of 

 its range, though it extended into the southern 

 spur of the Alleghanies six or eight degrees of 

 latitude farther south than the point at which 

 it was able to descend to the sea. The land- 

 locked Salmon is a most delicious fish, though 

 not quite so large as the Salmo salar : it was 

 rarely more than eight or ten pounds in 

 weight, and, on account of its long detention 

 in fresh water and diminution in size, its eggs 

 were considerably smaller than those of sea- 

 running Salmon. 



Mr. Wilmot said there was a celebrated 

 American showman who once came to Eng- 



