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PLAN OF THE INTERNATIONAL FISHERY EX- 

 HIBITION. 



WE present to our readers this week a plan of the 

 groat "International Fisherei Austellvuig " in 

 Berlin, with the Fallowing description : — 



THE HROt'XD FLOOR OP THE MAIN BUILDING. 



1, Fountain of Neptune in the great water basin, 



3-5, Collection of water animals, mammals, birds, 

 fishes, amphibians, reptiles, invertebrates, etc., which 

 are beneficial or hurtful to fishes. 



B. Italy ; South America. 



7-0, Japan ; China. 



10. An am. 



tt-13. East India. Farther Iudia, South Sea Islands 

 and Netherland Colonies. 



years ago. TheBe ate from the eggs sent to Germany by 

 Prof. Baird in October, 1877 ; and i\fr. Slmsler has si nun 

 n year older in his ponds, but as there were but few eggs 

 received that year, and his portion is necessarily small. 

 he is too careful of them to risk them in the had water 

 of Berlin. In the aquaria there are many fine fishes and 

 curious ones ; among the latter may be classed the dis- 

 play of Dr. Hermes, of the Berlin Aquarium, who has a 

 tank of eels, which are some six inches in length, labeled 

 "male eels," and accompanied by the following descrip- 

 tion : — 



"In the year 1874 Dr. Syrski, of Trieste, succeeded in 

 discovering the secret of the sexual organization of the 

 eel, which had remained a mystery up to this time, it usu- 

 ally being considered as au hermaphrodite.* Three Ital- 

 ian professors published in this same year au account of 

 an extended examination of eels, in which they proved 

 to their own satisfaction that the eel was an hermaph- 

 rodite, and it is only by knowing that one sex is repre- 

 sented only by small fish that we can account for the 

 fact that they escaped observation so long, the males not 

 exceeding forty-four centimetres (about sixteen inches) 

 in length, and in addition to this it appears to he the case 

 that all the eels in the waters of the interior are females, 



MAIN BUILDINO — SECOND FLOOK. 



Norway. Sweden, Denmark, Russia, Holland, England, 

 United States and Switzerland. 



ADDITIONS AND EXTENSIONS. 



14, Rotunda for fishery productions, fresh fish, etc. 

 15-10. Cyclorama, with rocky grotto, disclosing views 



of the Bay of Naples. 



1 7-1 .9. Artificial fish culture. 



15. Restaurant. 



20. Pond for boats. 



21. Smokehouse for fish iu operation. 



22. Shrubbery and pond for fish. 

 28-25. The German Department. 



The main building is about 230 feet in length by 

 180 wide, and is built of stone, while the additions are of 

 wood. It has been lately erected for the National Agri- 

 cultural Museum, but was only finished in time to be 

 opened as the Fishery Exhibition. It is fitted up in most 

 excellent taste, and the whole exhibition is so arranged 

 as to attract thousands who are not in the least interested 

 in the fisheries. This is well shown by the fact that on 

 Whitsunday it was visited by over 24,000 persons. 



LFrom a Staff Correspondent.! 



TnE INTERNATIONAL IISHERY EXHIBITION AT 



BERLIN. 



v. — living: fishes, 



THE display of live fishes here is small in compari- 

 son with the other objects and interests, and ne- 

 cessarily so, being perhaps of less importance than most 

 other departments, and few people are interested in 

 making such a show, Germany being the main exhibitor 

 in this line. America sends a few catfish, Amiurus catus, 

 and a hellbender, Menopama, from Mr. E. G. Blackford, 

 of Fulton Market, New York ; and in the central basin 

 in the "grotto of .Neptune" can be seen the famous Rus- 

 sian sterlet, Accipenser ruthenus, which is an inhabitant 

 of the tributaries of the Black Sea, and is so highly es- 

 teemed as food. This fish always commands a high 

 price, and in Germany is valued at about a dollar per 

 pound, the fish culturists of this land being anxious to 

 introduce it into their rivers. Three were recently served 

 at a supper given by Dr. Wittmack, custodian of the 

 Agricultural Museum (the building in which the Fishery 

 Exhibition is held), at which were present Prof. G. Brown 

 Goode, Deputy Commissioner from America ; Mr. Fred 

 Mather, the fish culturiat, and Mr. J. W, True, the custo- 

 dian of tho American collection, who speak of it as a 

 very line fish, making due allowance for national tastes, 

 cooking, etc., the Germans having a habit of smothering 

 a fish with some sauce or other, which disguises its natu- 

 ral flavor, while we Americans prefer our fish without 

 sauce, cooked like a beefsteak, in its own juices. 



One of tho most interesting exhibits is that connected 

 with the display of Mr. Schuster., of Freiburg, who has 

 about a dozen California salmon of twelve to fourteen 

 inches in length, and weighing perhaps a. pound or more, 

 swimming in a glasB tank, apparently none the worse for 

 having been transported in the egg from California two 



while the males always stay in the sea, or perhaps near the 

 mouths of rivers. It is difficult to distinguish the sexes 

 by their external appearance, and it requires a practiced 

 eye to do it with certainty. The specimens here exhib- 

 ited are from Trieste, sent by Dr. Jacoby, and the Inspec- 

 tor of the zoological station there, Dr. Graffe, who, by 

 long experience, is enabled to determine the sexes of eels 

 at sight, pronounces these to be male eels." 



Your correspondent is not able to give an opinion upon 

 this subject, and his interviews with the scientists of the 

 American Commission have not been successful in get- 

 ting an opinion from them, and so he can only state the 

 facts as he sees them, and leave tho reader to investigate 

 them. It is but just, however, to say that the learned 

 gentlemen who tell us that they can distinguish the male 

 from the female eel at sight do not attempt to impart 

 tins knowledge to us ordinary mortals in any way what- 

 ever, and we are left to guess what may be the subtle 

 distinction between them which the "practiced eye" 

 alone can detect. Thus are our hopes of being able to 

 fathom the mystery of the eel again dashed to earth after 

 being raised by the placard above translated. 



The carp is of course well represented in all its varie- 

 ties by many specimens from different breeders, as well 

 as the golden orfe, Idus melanotus, which is bred by the 

 German fish culturists both for food and ornament, while 

 the lover of beautiful and gamy fish is tempted to lin- 

 ger before a tank containing a "large "saibling," Salmo 

 salvelinus, the "charr" of the English, which grows in 

 the Boden See (Lake Constance) to the weight of perhaps 

 twenty pounds. The large specimen here shown weighed 

 about twelve pounds, its deeply colored crimson sides 

 showing like a brook trout in the breeding season. It is 

 not only a most beautiful fish, but also a fine one on the 

 table, and one which should be introduced into Ameri- 

 can lakes of sufficient depth, the German fish much ex- 

 ceeding that of England in size, and one which, when 

 placed beside our common lake trout, would cause the 

 latter to appear at a disadvantage. Many smaller speci- 

 mens of this fish are shown, from the egg up, as well as 

 the fatuous Salmo hucho of the Danube, a sort of land- 

 locked salmon which runs down into the Black Sea as far 

 as its salt and bitter water will allow — a fish which might 

 be introduced into the tributaries of Great Salt Lake, if 

 there are any which are large enough, that being the 

 nearest to its native habitat which occurs at present ; but 

 as this letter was intended only to describe fishes, and 

 not to touch upon fish culture, we must not wander into 

 that realm at present, although it is one that is so at- 

 tractive that it is hard to keep away from it. 



The show of grayling here would delight the heart of 

 Mr. Fitzhugh, the pioneer in American grayling fishing, 

 while tbe brook trout of Europe, Salmo fario, are not so 

 attractive to the eye as our own more shapely and highly 

 colored S. fontinulis. Many hybrids are shown, mostly 

 among the sahnonidae, as the saibling and trout, salmon 

 and trout, etc., the exceptions being in the cyprinidie, 



♦See Report United Stutos Fish Commission, 18W-5. "Lecture 

 on tho Organs of Reproduction and 1 lie Keiamdit \ ul Fishes, and 

 especially of Eels. By Dr. Svrski." Translation from "Degli 

 organ! riprodij.'.ioni' u m-lla lk-a.-onuazioue defpesoi ed in inspeela- 

 lita delle anguille," in BoUetmo della aooieta Adriatiea de Seienze 

 natural! In Trieste, December, 1674. 



where the crosses are numerous, and. one might n<M, 

 worthless. The German fish cultiirist is fond Cf hty- 

 brids. on the ground that they arc of ijriicker growth, 

 while the American breeder has not gone into this ques- 

 tion except as an occasional experiment, and perhaps 

 they may be of the opinion of your representative fish 

 cultural here, who. when a gentleman called his atten- 

 tion to a tank of fish bearing the placard, "Bastard xqn 

 forclle und saibling," by saving, "There, Mr. Mather, are 

 not those fine fish P* answered, "Yes; if one did not 

 know that they were bastards." 



Many other unimportant fishes are shown, and, although 

 not living, one cannot fail to be interested iu the model 

 pike (tisox) iu tin, which is somo fifteen feet long, and 

 is suspended in the grotto, having a brass ring around its 

 neck with a Greek inscription. This is an exaggerated 

 model of an "historical pike," whose painting adorns the 

 wall opposite, and is about eight feet in length. The 

 painting is an old one, and formerly adorned the old 

 covered bridge over the Neckarat Heilbronn, and after 

 the destruction of the bridge the picture was taken to 

 the town hall, where it has since hung, until the opening 

 of the Fishery Exhibition, The inscription says : "This 

 picture is of the natural size of the fish," and "is accom- 

 panied by the following verse : — 



Seliau hey Heilbronn, micli rocht verstch', 

 Im Woyor, geuanut Itoolcinwev .See, 

 Deriusk-h hat am Wasserzwar 

 Seehs Moreen, doch ohn' all 1 g'fiilir 

 Welcber ohn' aiizulassen 1st, 

 Was sioh zu'trugen hat zur Frist, 

 Ala man Tausend vier huiideri .lain- 

 tTnd ncuntzig sn.'ijL.-n ge*«hlct, war 

 Nach Chnsti onseres Heylauds gelvurtli 

 Bin soleher Heoht driun, n gefangen wurdt 

 Iter (rental fc hie abgemahlet stout 



Von Mils am llalsgewachsen fin 



Mrt^ri-vUrln'-rSel/nfisomannalhla 

 Gegrabcu ein luutet also : ioh bin der Fisch 

 Wek-her in dleson sell isr getlmu wordon 

 Von Frederick, .-lorn r.ndcvn difs Namons 

 Hejjenlen der We hit im Jahr 1230 

 Deu 5ten Oetob. 



Of which the foil iwing n; - i'.-. - : ,■•••■ i i ,•-..■:, 



lation : "Look ! by Heilbronn, you will understand, there 

 is a lake called the 'Bockinger See,' which is au expanse 

 of the Weyer, and contains about six acres, which can- 

 not be emptied. In the year 1497 such a pike as is here 

 pictured was caught at this places and of the self-same 

 size. Around his neck, just behind the gills, there was a 

 metal ring with a Greek inscription, as follows : T am 

 the fish which was caught in this lake in the time of 

 Frederico, the other of this name, Regent of the world, 

 in the year 1230, the 5th of October.'" 



This, as will be seen, leaves a time cf 207 years be- 

 tween the times of capture, but gives us no clue to its 

 age or size when first taken. The truthful chronicle fur- 

 ther saith , "On the 5th of October, 123u, under the reign 

 of the Emperor Frederich II., a pike was caught and a 

 metal ring placed upon its neck with a Greek inscription, 

 stating that it was placed in the water by the Emperor's 

 own hand, and that this pike was taken 207 years later, 

 iu the year 1497, weighing 350 pounds, and' was four 

 yards long. It was then presented to the Emperor Maxi- 

 millian I." 



There is no reason to doubt but what the ring grew 

 also, as it does not seem to have pinched the neck of the 

 fish, and why should it not, having been placed on its 

 neck by the Emperor's own hand? If fish will grow bo 

 under these circumstances, it might be well to import a 

 few emperors into America and station one at each fish 

 breeding establishment. 



gm mid 



Jiueti ^fishing. 



FISH IN SEASON IN JUNE. 



FRESH WATE 



Trout, Salma fnnlinalis. 

 Salmon, Salmo lalar. 

 Salmon Trout, Salmo eon.rtnts. 

 Land-looked Salmon, Stilmo 

 Olovcri. 



Sea Bass, Cenlroprtiti* atrariut. 

 Sueepshead, Arclmsaripu proba- 



tocephahu*. 

 Striped Ba«s, BMtm Utmealus. 

 White Pereh,.VnifiM<: amerieaxa. 

 WeaMsh, Cunnscim revolts. 



SALT WATBR. 



Bluetish, I'omainniu.i mltatrtx. 

 Spanish Mackerel, Ctjbtant mac- 



UltUUffl. 

 Ccro, Cubtumregale. 

 Hondo. N-m/ii Pdamtys. 

 Kingflsh, Monticin-us nebultmut. 



— Address all communications to "Forest and Stream 

 Publishing Company, New York." 



— The bass fishing at Greenwood Lake is reported to be 



Map of the Magallowat.— We have received from 

 Lee & Shepard, of Boston, a new map of the Magallo- 

 way, compiled by Mr. Ohas. L. Adams, which includes 

 the, country adjacent to that river, with routes from the 

 Bangeley Lakes. 



Lake Megantic is now attracting much attention as a 

 hunting and fishing region, and many sportsmen win go 

 from the Bangeley and Magalloway by the woods. It 

 takes about three days from Parmachenee Lake to 

 Megantic with good guides. 



* ■ 



A Veteran Sportsman.— The Syracuse Standard of 

 the 23d inst. has this pleasant personal mention Of Mr. 

 L. H. Redfield, of that city, a gentleman who is well 

 known throughout this State for his earnest efforts in be. 

 half of game protection : — 



Mr. L. H. Redfield is quite enthusiastic over his late 

 trip into the North Woods with P. IT. Agen, Esq. When 

 we recall the fact that Mr, R. is eighty- -seven years old, 

 and when we remember this and the fact that he is tho 

 oldest editor and publisher in the State, we are induced 

 to extend our warmest congratulations. The veteran, 

 after arriving at Lake No. 4. took his rod and line ami 

 went after the speckled beauties, independent and alono 

 like the younger fisherman. He stood the journey well. 

 ate well, fished well and enjoyed the trip most heartily 



