New-York tribune., 1868-12-31
FISH CULTURE.

MEETING OF TIE FISHERY COMMISSIONERS
A meeting OF the Commissioners appontad
By the Legislatures OF Nane New-uanrsh,re verr,o,.
Massachusetts, Connecticut. Rhode Island Newyo,L
and Pcnnsyyana to promote and further the wealth q,
the fisheries in inland and coast waters and 70
the artificial propagation Of such sneces ofasb os 80
formerly plentiful, but arc very scarce was held
ON Inesday evening ~ the Fifth Avenue Hotel with Col
S Tgeodnrs @I %, ~ RAJ IN the chair, AID
ating as Secretary. Mr. WOrrl opened Tho proc1edincs
by saying that he was only tyro pisccnre In lie
Snsauehehna hsn way had been constructed
The result was that 5000 shad bad been taken The frat
year wit!a n reach OF 20 miles but In the second and
third years the catch less owing 10 snow water
Fish be brought back into the susquchanna and The
line can be made very productive In shad and shad viii
be found in It far north as the NewYork State line
hsbaslets by the people OF Mary Pennsy yania
Mr. Th1daens Norris said that Mr Thomas Ashworth
OF ireland ad stated that IN order increase the supply
asked why The state of Pennsylvania should dam the
Of shad had been found in the OF the State ia de-
composed condition The gentleman thought that fish
way whch would not break into the face OF dam would
ObYatf a litigation and restock the rivers with fish,
Col Worral spoke OF the seincs and gill by
the Susqucanna, and OF their being many cases de-
voured by GELS while IN the nets II the fish could got
with shad.
DE- Benz p Howell remarked that the fisheries in the
the gill Introduced, and since then the slad had
decreased The fisheries had been owned by the riparian
The gentleman bref history OF the laws relating
TO hshng IN the Delaware and remarked that they
continually broken IL Is certain that the fish have d.
minshed ~ proportion TO the use Of selncs and gines
During She fishing in 1926 1880 shad taken
by seine IN the Delaware.
Mr. Robert B Roosevelt. said, the occasion Of visit
the Potomac fisheries last June he had observed thai
the fishing bciDg destroyed aud the production was
much less than formerly He 9iterward found that the
fisheries i'm the Hudson were absolutely DESTROYED Near
the City OF NcwYOrk, the stakes 10 which glnets are
attached have kept tsh from ascending the river The
channel was much blocked up 10y them that steamer
had been sunk IN 40 feet Of by running against
largo stakes The fish In tho streams and
lakes OF the State had been almost annihilaied
The shad divided into three classes the largest weign
ing six or pounds and the smallest about half
manure. Efforts to Introduce black and striped bass had
been made. In the OF the latter fish they
successful
Mr Reed OF Rhode Island spoke OF the pollution Of ths
waters OF his state by dams and manufactures and be-
the protection or isi In Management Bay.
Col LYMAN said that Massachusetts, had appropriated
$4,000 last year or the Matching Of fish IN the 1errimack
and other streams.
r Stone Of New Hampshire said that he could sond
2OO000O shad spawn annually from the MtIalnchi River
10 the United States.
An interesting address made by Dr. Howell OF New
Jersey the fishproducing power VI bis State. nsh
way was exhibited by Mr.. Norris.
Before adjOUrnng resolution empowering tie Preti
dent TO cau the Convention together at any period he
might deem 1t necessary was adopted