Delaware state journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1870-1883, 1872-11-16
STOCKED WITH SALMON.
Salmon Eggs from California to be placed
in theIsusquehanna.


The Harrisburg Journal saysi
A meeting ef the Fish CultuTlsts Asso-
cation and The Commissioners of the sew
eral States and Of the United States was
held al New YORK on the 10th inst. The
most important subject of the meeting was
the disposition of the ova Of the salmon
recently procured from California by the
United States Government, and now on
their way to New York, at the disposal OF
the United States Commissioner, Hon.
Spencer Y. Baird, The experiment Of pro-
curing oya being entirely new In Caliior-
mia, and the place Of procuring being be-
yond the bounds of civilization, no white
settlement existing within tlhy miles OF the
locality, but a small number of the ova
were obtained -l5 900 being the highest
estimate Of the hoped-for number. The
subject OF disposition was fully discussed.
Col. Worrall, representing Pennsylvania,
Of course, advocating his own susque'
hanna.
His recommendations were spontaneously
and fully seconded by the "head cent'e"
of the 1sheries interest. Seth Green, who
with bis characteristic honesty and
stralghtforwsrdness, seeing that the num-
Der was small, gave up the Hudson, for
the present, believing, and of course with
reason, that the latitude of the Susque-
hanna more nearly sympathized with tLat
Of the California rivers.
The rest OF the representatives from
New York and New England, including
New jersey, even with her magnificent
Delaware, gracefully conceded the first
experiment to the susquehanna, on the
same grounds, though New Jersey might
well have contended for an "even divide"
The subject after discussion was lett en-
tirely in the hands Of the United States
Commissioner, who, knowing the sense Of
the meeting, conferred the honor upon the
noble river that passes our doors.
We may expect, then, that in less than
a month We shall have California salmon
oya, to the amount Of from teu TO fifteen
thousand, placed in a state of incubation
In the hatching establishment at Silver
Spring Cumberland county, tributary
TO the nadoguin,t-whence they Will
make their way to the Susquehanna, and
thence by the Chesapeake Bay, TO the
ocean, 10 return In due time to their place
Of birth. Let the vile fish baskets Of Lam
caster county and MARYLAND be torn away,
as those Of Dauphin have been torn away,
and In q few years we shall have as fine
a fish as swims in the ocean. A fish that
reaches twenty-four pounds. ayoirduPois
In size, at our very doors. We beg of the
Lancaster and Northumberland county
shsriffs to do their duty In this regard.
We beg Of Maryland to do all she can to
clear the river Of these piratlcal inven'
lions.
These salHon need no flsh-ladders be
yond the navigation sluice-ways. They
are nothing like as timid as shad, ant
there is no obstacle in our river that viii
prevent them reaching to the mounlaini
on the West Branch, and to the NoTl
State line on the North Branch, exc, p
the wretched fish baskets that catch anC
kill them in their infancy, before the!
reach the sea. In year we shall have /
large present of European salmon frou
the German, Dutch and Belgian govern
ments-these will be equally divided
amongst all our Northern rivels-and tn
time will come when they will teen will
the-s magnificent products Of the ocean.