THti CANADIAN SPORTSMAN AND NATURALIST. 





land and took away an animal called Jumbo. 

 The same gentleman in former years ex- 

 hibited a certain animal at his museum in 

 New York which he advertised as the " Whit 

 is it?" It seemed to him the s;ime term 

 might he applied to the land-locked Salmon. 

 His impression was that there was no such 

 thing in existence as land-locked Salmon. 

 scientifically or naturally. It was the true 

 Salmo salar, which had a differenl coat and a 

 different shape from the water it lived in, in 

 the same way that the showman he referred 

 to put a coat on the animal he exhibited. 

 Land-locked Salmon, which he called Salmo 

 salar, was a fish which could he obtained by 

 any pisciculturist at his pleasure; all he had 

 to do was to hatch from the £gg of the Sahtio 

 salar a number of little fish, put them into a 

 large body of water from whence they could 

 not reach the sea, and if they found food 

 congenial to their wants, they would grow and 

 develope into a large fish, slightly changed in 

 colour and scarcely perceptibly in form. Such 

 had been his experience in America and 

 Canada. Lake Ontario was filled with this 

 fish. When he was a youth he had known 

 thousands killed in one night, and the farmers 

 caught them in such numbers as they entered 

 the streams to deposit their ova, that some of 

 them got enough to buy their farms with. In 

 the stream which ran within a lew yards from 

 wbere he was born and brought up be had 

 killed hundreds and thousands of them on 

 their migration up from their sea, Lake On- 

 tario, into the smaller streams and rivers to 

 deposit their ova, in the same way as the 

 Salmo salar left the ocean and ascended 

 rivers. For want of proper precautions, proper 

 protection and good legislation, this Salmon 

 had almost disappeared from Lake Ontario. 

 At first there were no laws in the country, 

 and consequently every man killed as he 

 pleased, and as the poor creatures came up. 

 they were destroyed right and left. The In- 

 dians killed them, and the white Indians killed 

 them still more. To prove that the Salmo 

 sebago was the true Salmo salar, he might say- 

 that he had taken eggs of Salmo salar, im- 

 pregnated them, hatched them, and taken 

 them up into the rivers running into bake 

 Huron ; and to-day some o\ the true Salmo 

 salar were found in Lake Huron, though 

 smaller than were found along the coast. That 

 was evidence to show that you might make 

 land-locked Salmon in any water you chose 

 where the risk could find congenial food, and 



where they could not gel to the sea. It n 



be Paid, How could the Salmon in Lake On- 

 tario be -aid to I"' land-locked when tl ■ 



Lawrence emptied that lake into tin- 



Salmon were feeders in the sea and breed* 

 fresh water; they migrated annually to the 

 rivers to reproduce. When they were abund- 

 ant in the waters of the gulf, they passed up 

 the St. Lawrence, entering every stream on 

 either si.le up into Lake Ontario : and were it 

 not tor the great barrier of Niagara Falls the 

 Salmon would he found in the upper spi 

 pf Lake Superior. It was their instinct to go 

 onward and onward until they found a suit- 

 able spot for spawning, and they would have 

 passed into Lake Erie and Lake Superior, the 

 same as Lake Ontario, were it not tor the 

 Falls; the consequence was they entered into 

 the smaller streams which fed the lake ami 

 went haelc into Lake Ontario instead of into 

 the sea, wbere they had remained up to the 

 present time, as the true sea Salmon only 

 acclimatized to fresh water. Any gentleman 

 in England who was desirouR of having land- 

 locked Salmon, it he had a lake with a great 

 depth in the middle and small streams running 

 into it, into which the fish could go to I. reed. 

 might produce land-locked Salmon Irom the 

 eggs of the Salmon of the sea. 



Mr. Birkbeck, M.P., on behalf of the Exe- 

 cutive Committee, desired to thank- Sir James 

 Mailland lor his excellent paper, and also to 

 thank Mr. Wilmol lor his remarks on the 

 question ol State aid to Fisheries, lie thought 

 the advice he had given was most excellent, 

 and only regretted that the Bonse of Commons 

 was not more largely represented. He could 

 only hope that through the press the members 

 of the Legislature would he able to read, mark, 

 learn, and inwardly digest what had passed, 

 and would persuade the Government of the 

 day to recognise the importance ol giving 

 assistance to our fisheries. 



The resolution was then put and carried 

 unanimously. 



Sir James GL Maiti axu. in reply, said that 

 he was very glad that his paper had elicited 

 remarks Irom the representatives o\' America 

 and Canada, both ol which countries were 

 pre-eminently known tor fish culture He 

 could not say that be agreed with all the re- 

 marks that had been made. Fishing was a 

 very old art ; fish had been caught ever since 

 man went out in a coracle, but fish culture was 

 still very young, and it would be expecting a 

 great .leal to expect Parliament to change legis- 



