Omaha daily bee., 1874-06-18
FISH POINTS

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Danger to the salmon fisheries by
the sawdust is aPprehended on the
Lower Fraser.
The receipts of salmon at Sacra-
mento average 600 to 700 per day
about four tons. q 81 III
Salmon fishing at the mouth Of
Rogue river, Oregon, is good. The
canning establishment IL putting up
$500 two-pound cans . day.
The Navarro river Of Mendocino
country, Cal, near its mouth, is lit
terally filled with herrings. and
loads are caught daily.
The creeks In Boulder and Larf-
mer counties, Colorado, abound in
trout this season. "A Longmont
man made a catch in the st. Vrain,
the other day, of one hundred and
twelve, i'm five hours and q half. o.
Yank Hammond, says the Truckee
Republican, of June 4th, has pur-
chased 1900 trout Of the Conner
Fishery, for the Virginia and Gold
Hill Water Company The reser-
voir of the Company Is $50 feet
square, and IA feet deep. The trout
purchased are one year old.
The Oswego IN. W Times of the
10Th says that on the day previous
a gentleman fishing with . fly from
the pier of that harbOr, captured a
shad measuring nine inches and
weighing a quarter Of . pound.
This is the first OswegO result of the
Seth Green experiment of stocking
Lake Ontario with North River
shad. sEr-5 ail
John Williamson, Secretary and
General superintendent Of the Cali
fornia Acclimatizing Society, is at
Lake Tahoe, to secure trOut-spawn
to produce 100000 fish. This
spawn will be Matched at the fish
farm of the society at San Pedro
Point, San Mateo county. The Ae.
climatizing Society were very sue
cessful last season in raising Tahoe
trout, and have sold large numbers
of them to pisciculturists, not only
in California, but in the Atlantic
States. The society has orders this
seasOn for 1000 young trout from
the east, and the demand exceeds
the supply. " 2, ssaitf a. u
Fish are plenty in the streams
about Pueblo. The turbine wheel
in the mills of that city recently
came to a sudden stand-still. The
miller shut off the water and pro-
ceeded to investigate, and, accord
ing to the Chieftain, on examina-
ton, he found that piece of machin-
cry filled to its utmost capacity with
catfish. The wheel was OLened, and
about 100 pounds Of fish, varying
in weight from two to fifteen
pound, were taken out. The orifi-
ces in the wheel are sufficiently
large to allow fish under two pounds
in weight to pass through, and how
many more members there were in
this piscatorial exploring exhibition,
it is impossible to tell. The fish
seem to have come down the mill
ditch ia a school, and their voyage
of discovery was brought to a sud-
den termination by the turbine,
which seems to make an excellent
trap for large sized members Of the
flny tribe.
In q letter to the Rochester Demo
crat, Mr.. Seth Green says: ~ COM
menced Matching shad in the year
1859. Twenty shad were a good
take for a drift for the gill nets ; that
is, the fisherman stretch their nets
cross-ways of the river and drift
down with the tide until it changes.
For the last three years shad are a
good drift they are nearly all sold to
dealers and when there comes a glut
dealers cut the price down on fisher.
men, and keep the price up on the
country dealer. There have been q
few days in each year for the last
three years that shad have been
sold for So per hundred, and::no one
got the benefit of the increase ex-
cept the people who lived near the
river and the dealers. And that is
not all. The dealers along the riv.
ers buy the fish and sell all they can
at retail. They are spread on their
tables and the shad are picked until
their sale is over, and ! never
knew o man to take q
small one if he could get a large
one for the same price. Then he
fills his orders and sends his culls to
the country dealer, and he gets
them n day longer out of water
than he ought to. / have under
taken to even it up and give the
people a fresh shad and q cheap
shad, what they have never had
before. / go to the fishermen and
buy the shad. They are sold
here the next morning. They
are as fresh as the freshest shad
sold in the Albany market. Ihave
been obliged to do this to give the
people living away from the river,
that helped pay for it, the benefit Of
it, and teach the dealers how to give
the people a cheap, fresh shad. l
can make the same difference with
white fish in the great lakes, when
the Canadian government will join
us i'm the expense. in four years that
/ have had shad in the Hudson and
Connecticut rivers; that is, in the
ratio Of IL white fish to 200, four
years from the time I commenced
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