Centre Hall reporter. [volume] (Centre Hall, Pa.) 1868-1871, 1871-02-24
salmon Matching.

Mr.. Thaddeus Norris, who applied TO
Mr.. Samuel Wilmot, Of New Castle,
Ontario, Canada, for salmon eggs 10
make the attempt 10 stock the Delaware
with this noble fish, has received q
response, from which the Germantown
I 7hegrdph makes the following extract ;
You or your friends, or any other
deserving persons, can have any number
Of salmon eggs that may be required.
The best time for removing them IN Feb
ruary or March. Messrs. Hudson and
Pike, Fish Commissioners Of Connect
cut, have been here and have engaged a
large number Of eggs. The price at
present is tbs same aA we obtained last
year from tho Maine Commissioner
forty dollAra per Thousand eggs. The
eva look very well indeed. The fish can
plainly ha seen in them A. do moi
force incubation by using spring water
at "a degrees, which consider au un-
natural tempemturs, my young iry viii
not come out before April, The tenn
peratHFe Of MI streams In America winch
salmon frequent for spawning viii he
found 70 be very similar. about 3S or "a
degrees, during the winter months. In
October and November, when the spawn
ing is going oa, the temperature is much
higher. As soon as winter sets IN and
ice covers the rivers, 33 or "a degrees
viii be- the average condition OF the water
until the latter part of April, when the
temperature rapidly increases AS soon
as L reaches o. or IS degrees, out pop
the salmon fry as il by magic IL amuses
4 - fiatH
breeders, who say that il is indispensable
for successful fish breeding 10 have pure
spring water, at temperature OF from
40 10 90 degrees. My experience has led
me 10 believe that so high temperature
is quite unnatural with the salmonidye
tribes of fish. Throughout the whole Of
North America we find the salmon and
trout depositing their spawn IN streams
that are constantly covered with Ice IN
iha winte~.
Let me know the number of eggs your
friends may probably want, in order that
may keep enough on hand. A large
number OF the salmon that manipulated
last fall when in prime condition weighed
from twenty five to thriy-tiye pounds
each. A number measured In length
from three feet 20 three feet four inches,
| would Judge that a salmon three feet in
l.ngth in July would weigh from twenty
five 10 thirty pounds. would like TO
have your opinion on this point.
Since our Inst reference 10 prnpAgating
salmon in the Delaware, says the Tsls-
qraph, Mr.. Norris informs us that he
thinks, after mature consideration, tha-
Mr.. L, II Christie's trout Matching estab-
iishment in Dutelless county, New York.
wouldhe tine most eligible place 20 hatch
the salmon for the DalewarA Mr.. Chris
tie is a personal friend Of Mr. Norris.
and has every facility for Matching the
salmon oya. Tie has an abnnsiant supply
OF spring water at uniform tefnperate-
ture Of 30 degrees, and when the fry
arrived at the proper age they could be
readily transported to the Delaware. 1t
Is proposed 10 obtain eight or teu thou
sand impregnated eggs from DIR. Wilmot,
and 10 make this attssinpt 10 stock the
Delaware With this celebrated fish ON a
large scale. The upper portions Of the
Delaware contain numerous deep holes IN
which the temperature in summer is not
higher than the salmen streams Of Can
ada, and the numerous trout streams
running into the river within fifty miles
OF its source would afford protection TO
the young salmon fry from predatory
fish.
Better laws for the protection OF fish
in the Delaware and its tributaries viii
soon 10 presented 10 the legislature, for
without the assistance Of more stringent
laws regulating fishing in the Delaware,
the laudalie efforts 10 stock the 1'iver and
its branches with new and valuable fish
viii be entirely frnitless. We trust,
however, that the legislature viii grant
the protection desired by our own fish
commissioner. the commissioners Of New
Jersey and by all who do not wish the
determination Of shad and other fish in
orr river, which must surely be the re-
suit in a very few years without Legislative
Interference EI