BULLETIN 
OF THE 
UNITED STATES FISH COMMISSION 
FOli 
1887. 
I1.-BEPOBT Oi\ A SUCCESSFUL ATTEMPT TO INTRODUCE LIVING 
SOLES TO AMERICA. 
By THOMAS J. MOORE, 
Curator of the Liverpool Free Public Museum. 
[Abstracted from the Proceedings of the Literary and Philosophical Society of Liver- 
pool, No. XL, 1885-’86, p. 185.] 
The geographical distribution of animal-s has important bearings on 
| the welfare, comfort, and luxuries of mankind. The camel of Arabia, 
ithe reindeer of Lapland, and the fur-bearing animals of the far West 
are examples among mammalia. The naturalizing of the fowl, turkey, 
and pheasant are examples among birds of the extent to which man 
can influence their distribution for his own benefit, and the progress 
of the modern science of fish -culture promises well for the naturalization 
of important and delectable food-fishes in parts of the world where they 
did not previously exist. 
The success which, after repeated failures, crowned the efforts of the 
persevering men who have introduced salmon and trout to Australia 
and New Zealand is a case in point, and the successful breeding of the 
American brook trout ( Salmo or Salvelinus fontinalis) in Britain is an- 
other. Now the American lakes, rivers, and coasts, though abundantly 
supplied by nature with food-fishes both of nutritious and dainty kinds, 
are not provided with certain sea fishes with which we are specially 
favored in the British Islands, and which are in the highest esteem for 
the table. The American States on the Atlantic side have neither soles 
nor turbots, and as a consequence the Americans are not happy. 
In the Gulf of Mexico and East Florida they have a couple of floun- 
ders, and they have there also another flat- fish (Remirhombus pcetulus 
Bean), but of this last all the specimens but one were taken from the 
Bull- U. S. F, 0„ 87—1 1 
