. 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. 478 AMERICAN FISHES. genus have not been sufficiently studied, it is impossible yet to make this generalization. They are, emphatically, cold water fishes, thriving at a temperature little above the freezing point, and in their period of greatest vigor and perfection at the approach of winter, as is indicated by the fact that at this time their spawning takes place. No fish of any kind has ever been found nearer to the North Po
. 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. 478 AMERICAN FISHES. genus have not been sufficiently studied, it is impossible yet to make this generalization. They are, emphatically, cold water fishes, thriving at a temperature little above the freezing point, and in their period of greatest vigor and perfection at the approach of winter, as is indicated by the fact that at this time their spawning takes place. No fish of any kind has ever been found nearer to the North Pole than the Char, a species, Salvelimis arcturus, having been discovered by the last English polar expedition in 12° north of the Arctic Circle. In the South of Europe its range is limited by the Alps, and in this region its study has brought to light a very curious fact which confirms still more strongly the idea just spoken of, that the fish thrive the best in a very cold climate. In the extreme north and in the extreme south this fish reaches its greatest THE OMBRE CHEVALIER OR SAIBLING. The Saibling has been propagated by German fish-culturists for a period of ten years or more, and thrive magnificently in captivity. The hatch- ery at Oussee, in Germany, produces yearly three or four hundred thousand of artificially-brooded Saibling, and plants them in the neighboring lakes. In the tanks at the late International Fishery Exhibition in Berlin were exhibited many superb specimens of this fish, some of them over, two feet in length, and one of these was sent to the National Museum by Herr von Behr, president of the Deutscher Fischeri Verein. In selecting a place in which to deposit the Saibling eggs received in January, 1887, the Commissioner of Fisheries has endeavored to find a lake as similar as possible in depth and temperature to the larger Swiss lakes, and he has, therefore, sent them to Lake Winnipseogee, N. H. Here the whole sixty thousand were planted, w
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