Identifier: annualreportof1189495newy (find matches)
Title: Annual report of the Commissioners of Fisheries, Game and Forests of the State of New York
Year: 1895 (1890s)
Authors: New York (State). Commissioners of Fisheries, Game and Forests
Subjects: Forests and forestry Fisheries Game and game-birds
Publisher: (Albany, N.Y. : The Commission)
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gne. The young trout,furnished by the Trocadero Aquarium, were about eight centimetres (three and one-fifthinches) long when they were placed in a pond of moderately high temperature. Therewas no mortality, and after two years they reached an average length of two feet. In the aquarium at The Hague, Holland, in 1894, rainbow trout and Americanbrook trout were among the live fish on exhibition. The aquarium at the AntwerpExposition in the same year contained numerous specimens of the rainbow. In theTrocadero Aquarium, Paris, where the eggs of the rainbow were first hatched inEurope, both the quinnat salmon and the rainbow were represented by many fineexamples, and the rate of growth appeared to be more rapid than in their native waters. In Mexico the rainbow has been successfully introduced and is now acclimatized. Battery Park Aquarium, New York, April 24th, 1896. Ti)e 5fovn Trout—(Sa/mo Fario). By R. B. MARSTON, Editor of Fishing Gazette and Hon. Treasurer Fly Fishers Club, London.
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The trout is the best of all fresh water fish.—Gesner. The trout is a fish highly valued, both in this and forraigneNations; he may be justly said (as the old poets said of wine, andwe English say of Venison), to be a generous fish ; a fish that is solike the Buck, that he also has his seasons ; for it is observed, that hecomes in and goes out of season with the Stag and the Buck. Gesnersays that his name is of a Germane off-spring, and says, he is a fishthat feeds clean and purely, in the swiftest streams, and on the hardestgravel, and that he may justly contend with all fresh water fish, asthe mullet may with all sea fish for precedency and daintiness oftaste, and that being in right season, the most dainty palates haveallowed it to him.—Izaak Walton. 30ME years ago I sent some thousands of the eggs of our brown trout to theUnited States and thanks to the great interest taken in them by my friend,Mr. A. Nelson Cheney, a good quantity hatched out successfully. Browntrout eggs wer

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