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TROUT IN BRITISH EAST AFRICA 
this material for long distances lies in its lightness, which causes 
shipping firms to take it only by measurement. 
I am indebted to the Imperial Institute Bulletin for most 
of the facts regarding the commercial aspect of the product. 
TROUT IN BRITISH EAST AFRICA 
By F. J. Jackson. 
Readers of this journal will doubtless be interested to 
hear that whilst camped on the Aberdare Range on August 
28 last, I succeeded in catching five trout, and rising five 
or six others. The fish were all taken with a small grouse 
wing fly and within a distance of 150 yards down stream of the 
footbridge that crosses the Gura stream, and within a very 
short distance of the site of the hatchery, which was further 
up stream. The stream itself is little more than 2 feet in 
width, except here and there where it widens out into small 
pools of perhaps 4 feet in width. The fish, all brown trout, 
varied from 8 to 6| inches in length, and were little over a 
quarter of a pound in weight, and were probably hatched out 
from the same consignment of ova. 
As I saw nothing larger or smaller than these fish and was 
anxious to obtain evidence of others, Mr. Guy Baker of the 
Forestry Department very kindly undertook to try to 
obtain further evidence. Mr. Baker’s efforts were successful, 
and he sent me a small brown trout 5J inches in length, and 
another of 9 inches. This latter appears to differ from the 
brown trout in being much more silvery, besides having a 
rounder and proportionately shorter head, and it may be 
a rainbow trout. But what is of still more interest, as tending 
to show that it is probable that the fish have already begun 
to breed, is a photograph by Mr. Baker of a fish 15 inches in 
length and 15| oz. in weight. 
Mr. Baker informs me that all his fish were caught with a 
fly, and within three miles of the site of the hatchery. 
November 1909. 
