. American fishes : a popular treatise upon the game and food fishes of North America with especial reference to habits and methods of capture. Fishes -- North America. THE BROOK TROUTS OR CHARS. 475 which their momentary whims demand, or a clever imitation thereof. Trout are always in season from April to August, and in some States for a longer period. The Eastern Brook Trout must have been discovered by the first settlers of North America soon after their coming to the New World; yet, strange to say, the only allusion to it in colonial times is in the " Re- monstrance of New Netherland,
. American fishes : a popular treatise upon the game and food fishes of North America with especial reference to habits and methods of capture. Fishes -- North America. THE BROOK TROUTS OR CHARS. 475 which their momentary whims demand, or a clever imitation thereof. Trout are always in season from April to August, and in some States for a longer period. The Eastern Brook Trout must have been discovered by the first settlers of North America soon after their coming to the New World; yet, strange to say, the only allusion to it in colonial times is in the " Re- monstrance of New Netherland," addressed by that colony to the States General in 1649. It was first brought before the world of science in 1814, when Dr. Mitchill named it Salmo fontinalis, a name which has become almost classical. Our ichthyologists having recently decided that its technical name shall be Salvelinus, a wail has arisen from our anglers, and the ever witty Charles Hallock has voiced the general discontent in his rhythmical protest, beginning "I am Salmo fontinalis,"* which con- cludes as follows : " No fulsome titles do I covet, ' Science holds no bribe for me. Slavery for those who love it. From nomenclature leave me free, Yet they call me Salvelinus. Can you fancy sin more ; They have always been the pets of fish-culturists ; indeed, the experi- ments of Dr. Garlick and Prof. Ackley, who inaugurated in 1853 the practice of pisciculture in America, were made with this fish. They become thoroughly domesticated, and are as much under the control of their owner as his horses and cattle. They have been acclimatized in England since 186S, and are always on exhibition in the aquaria of the museum of fish-culture at South THE MALMA TROUT. The Malma Trout, Salvelinus malum, is the most important of our ^American Angler n, Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - c
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