THE CALIFORNIAN SALMON. 
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reaching so far south, the fact will have an important 
bearing upon the question of the acclimatisation of the 
Californian Salmon in rivers having high temperatures. 
IS THE CALIFORNIAN SALMON SUITABLE TO 
THE MURRAY RIVER? 
No attempt has yet been made to place any salmon in 
the Murray River, but a few trout have been liberated 
in one of its tributaries by the Acclimatisation Society. 
It is not at all improbable that the Californian Salmon 
would succeed very well there, if once established in suffi- 
cient numbers to bid defiance to the dangers of the annual 
journey to the sea. The upper waters of this river and 
its tributaries have splendid spawning grounds, and never- 
failing streams of pure and cool water, which would be 
admirably adapted either for this fish or the brown trout. 
As the undertaking to establish the Californian Salmon in 
the Murray and its tributaries would, if successful, benefit 
in pretty equal proportions the three colonies of New South 
"Wales, Victoria, and South Australia, they might unite in 
the undertaking, and contribute £1,000 each to stock this 
splendid stream with, say, a million of salmon. It may be 
said that the climate is too warm for this fish, but an 
examination of the map will show that the mouth of the 
Murray is in latitude 35£ deg., while its head waters and 
southern tributaries are between 36 deg. and 37 deg., and 
they reach altitudes of several thousand feet above the sea. 
Let us now see where is the home of the salmo quinnat. 
The mouth of the Sacramento is in latitude 37i deg., or two 
degrees farther north than the mouth of the Murray, and 
the main course of the river is from the north, running 
southerly, but its waters reach a temperature of over 
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