FISH CULTURE IN BRITISH EAST AFRICA 88 
fish in the streams which should be removed. It is 
possible now to get 10 or 12 lbs. of fish any day one 
cares to do so ! 
I suspected that, as has happened in other places, the larger 
trout were eating the smaller ones. Early in October Mr. 
Baker obtained evidence of this. While moving the fish, he 
found that they could not travel long in buckets without getting 
exhausted for want of aerated water, and so made small dams 
in which they were placed temporarily. Dams were also 
used for storing fish caught before proceeding to carry them a 
distance. In one of these dams, two large trout of about 3 lbs. 
each, together with 27 small ones, were placed. In three days 
the two large trout had eaten 18 of the smaller ones, and when 
taken from the dam a fish 9 inches long was pulled out of the 
mouth of one of the large ones ! ! 
Altogether, 29 trout were placed in the Morendat, and 35 
in the Chania river. 
The largest trout caught by Mr. Baker weighed 6| lbs. and 
was two feet long : see the photo attached. 
Towards the end of November and early in December an 
attempt was made to hasten the work of transference by 
spawning some of the fish in the unstocked rivers. Three 
trout were spawned and the spawn of two fertilized ; but the 
care of trout spawn requires many precautions and technical 
knowledge, and it is doubtful whether this part of the work 
has had any results. For next season, arrangements have 
been made for having one or two Foresters, now on leave in 
England, trained practically in fish culture, so that, in 1911, 
between September and November, the distribution of the 
fish among the Aberdare streams may be undertaken on a larger 
scale. In the meantime, we have now the assurance that a 
sufficient stock has been placed in the Mdrendat to start the 
stocking of that stream, and eventually Lake Naivasha, while 
in the Chania and other streams on the Aberdare, trout are 
now in a fair way to multiply and become established. 
Proposals are under discussion for getting out a fish-culture 
expert, more especially for the work of placing trout in 
the numerous streams and rivers on the Mau (and west 
of it) which flow into Lake Victoria Nyanza. Also for getting 
