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numbers; but the Pacific coast salmon possess 
the fatal defect that they do not rise to a fly. 
We were tempted to include British African 
possessions among the countries whose waters 
now claim trout as established colonists, but 
however promising the experimental consign¬ 
ments of ova to Cape Colony, B. E. Africa and 
Nyassaland, we do not know whether the fish 
have made themselves perfectly at home in 
those regions. It is fortunate that the trout 
should lend themselves, almost from the earliest 
stage, to successful travel; the ova, delicate and 
easily injured before they reach the “eyed” 
stage, acquire then a toughness which permits 
them to endure with safety long journeys that 
involve rough handling. During their youthful 
days they are of course at the mercy of larger 
indigenous fish, unless detained in carefully se¬ 
cluded ponds; but once large enough and strong 
enough, the combative spirit which makes the 
trout the prince among game fish, enables him 
to hold his own against fish his superiors in 
size. 
The ichthyologist of a few generations hence 
will, we conceive, have a complex if interesting 
task before him when he undertakes to deal 
with the life-history of any species of game fish 
in any part of the world. More especially will 
this be the case in America where fish transla¬ 
tion has been practiced with more species than 
in any other country. The work performed by 
the American Fisheries Society, established in 
1870 as the A.merican Fish Cultural Association, 
and the bodies which have taken birth there¬ 
from since have done an amount of work which 
fill many volumes to properly record. One or 
its earliest_ experiments was also one of the 
parent society’s most successful. In 1871 or 
1872 shad were hatched out in captivity on the 
Atlantic side_. railed across the Continent and 
freed in Pacific waters, and so well have they 
thriven that these fish have now spread up the 
coast and down, and their appearance in the 
Sea of Japan may be reported ere long, if it 
has not already occurred. Pacific salmon have 
been established with equal success in Cali¬ 
fornia waters—a proper return we may sug¬ 
gest for the rainbow trout, which have been 
translated from California to so many parts of 
the world. It is to be observed that the Amer¬ 
ican pisciculturists have by no means confined 
their attentions to sporting fish; indeed had 
they not devoted themselves more to food fish 
their work would never have reached the vast 
dimensions of the present day. The debt of 
sportsmen to America, however, is none the 
less. It was to America that New Zealand first 
appealed for sporting fish to stock her waters. 
If we are not mistaken, the first foreign ova 
received in New Zealand were those of the white- 
fish (coregonns chepeiformis) of the Great 
Lakes. That was as far back as 1876. The ova 
traveled in safetJ^ but the colonial waters were 
not suitable for the species, and the experiment 
was not repeated. _ Ten years ago an attempt 
was made to acclimatize the American brook 
char, a very good sporting fish, and it was re¬ 
ported in i8g8 that a consignment of 14,000 had 
been successfully dealt with at Rotorua, where 
the streams had proved exceptionally well- 
suited to the species; but later reports of the 
Wellington society are silent concerning the 
American brook char. 
Fish colonization can hardly be said to have 
outgrown its infancy at the present day; a 
robust and promising infancy it is true, but the 
scope for such operations is wide, and as the 
British element increases in out-of-the-way parts 
of the earth, so will the demand for sporting 
fish increase. A writer of a past day remarked 
that wherever_ we settled we took “the willow 
aiKl the pigskin,” and the writer of the future 
will add to bat and racing saddle, the trout rod. 
The trout has been everywhere the most suc¬ 
cessful colonist, though his great merits must 
be held accountable for the greater opportun¬ 
ities which have been afforded him. 
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