ACCLIMATIZATION OF FISH IN THE PACIFIC STATES. 
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The average retail price received by the San Francisco dealers for carp during 
the past few years has been about 4 cents a pound. The average weight of those 
exposed for sale in the city markets is 5 pounds. The largest seen by Mr. Paladini, 
one of the oldest dealers, weighed 30 pounds, while Mr. Cuneo, of the American Union 
Fish Company, has handled a fish whose weight was 33 pounds. 
In discussing the striped bass, reference is made to the observations of Mr. Alex- 
ander, which showed that in the Sacramento and San Joaquin Rivers the carp consti- 
tute the principal food of the bass. Further investigation will doubtless indicate that 
a number of other fishes (black bass, steelhead, and Sacramento perch, for instance) 
also subsist, in part at least, on carp. 
THE TENCH. 
The tench ( Tinea tinea ) is a fish of the carp family native to Europe. It has been 
somewhat extensively planted in the United States by the national fish commission. 
In foreign countries it reaches a maximum weight of 12 pounds. The fish is covered 
with very fine scales and is shapely and handsome. Its habits are very much like 
those of the carp. The flesh is firm and white, and is considered very palatable. In 
1895 a number of shipments of yearling tench were made to the Pacific States; 50 fish 
were placed in Older Springs, Washington County, Oreg. ; 400 were put in Fourth of 
July Lake, Fetz Lake, and a pond in Spokane County, Wash., and 758 in Diamond 
Lake, a lake and a pond in Kootenai County, and a pond in Latah County, Idaho, the 
first-named lake receiving 500 fish. In February, 1885, 20 tench were sent to a private 
applicant in Virginia City, Nevada. 
THE GOLDFISH. 
The goldfish ( Garassius auratus ) is an ornamental fish, without value as food. 
Numerous plants have been made by the United States Fish Commission in private 
waters in the Pacific States, and the fish has, in some instances, probably escaped into 
lakes or larger streams and there become acclimatized. It readily interbreeds with 
the carp, to which family it belongs. 
THE AWA. 
In the report of the California fish commission for 1876-77 the following reference 
is made to the introduction of the Hawaiian awa ( Ghanos cyprinella ) in California 
waters. No further mention is made of the fish in the State reports, and there is no 
record of their survival or capture: 
In exchange for some salmon and trout eggs, sent to the Hawaiian Islands, we received in July 
last nearly 100 fish called “awa.” These we placed in a small stream at Bridgeport, in Solano County, 
where they could have free access to brackish and salt water. They are said to he the most valuable 
food-fish of the Hawaiian Islands, of fine flavor, and thrive in fresh, brackish, and salt water. Where 
they have access to salt water they grow to weigh an average of 5 pounds. We have reason to 
believe they will find congenial homes and grow and multiply in the waters of this State. 
