The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1880-05-05
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! it since.


THarper's Masazinel
The long held and only recently
rejected theory that the shoals of
fishes moved in vast mass along the
coast, sending off detachments into each
river as they passed its mouth, is to be
attributed to John Gilpin and some other
| authors, who have written flowingly on
the subject. The recent careful investi-
cations Of naturalists indicate that the |
anadromous fishes, those entering the
rivers and bodies of fresh water frsan the
sea, do not have an extended range in
the ocean, and that each rivers colony |
remains, after returning, in the deep
waters opposite their river. The motive
for the movement of these shoals of an
adroanous fishes or rather how it is in-
cited, has scarcely been explained.
The life of the fishes has always been a
mystery. 1t is not search Tor food, Is
they do not eat while in fresh water;
the opening of hundreds of stomachs
will fail to find food present. 1t is an
easy disposal of the question as to how
each colony recognizes its native river to
say that 'It is instructive" So it is
also when the butchers horse recognizes
the familiar gates; but we have some
evidence as to what senses he uses. The
fishes, probably, prompted by functional
disturbances, from the tumid ovaries
and spermaries, are melted to move
ment. The courses of the sea, I'M,
marked as theyare, are, within each col
ony's limit, their habitual pathways.
An unerring capacity in the fish for
finding its own river may be no more.
than THAT which guides the hermit crab
to the shell of the natica.
The latter goes to hide it's sensitive,
booty, with an apparent nervous itrepida-l
ton at its unprotected condition. The
: former with an uneasiness Of body from
the functional changes it is undergoing,
is impelied to activity. The transmitted,
7 habit 'of ascending the stream is, as 1T
3 were, blended and alloyed with the sub
stance Of the nerves, and aroused by its
: condition, carries it, without conscious
: purpose, into the river Of its progenitors
s and its own. The impulses of the fish
are only in a slightly more complicated
l series than those of the crab. That it
t should be the instinct for specific
d stream, established through inheritance
: of many generations, is easier to un-
derstand than that it is sort OF memory
q OF the place Of its immature life, as the
d theory Of fish culture makesit, and as
70 observation seems to sustain.
; In the waters Of the Delaware, where
q there were no salmon originally, the
s. young salmon placed in Buslikill Creek
Se returned after five years, land were taken
le not only in the Delaware River, but the
! larger number in the neighborhood o.
+. Bushkill Creek. tits not essential that
TO all the fishes should have this impelline
', influence, whatever it might be, as, lik'
"a gregrarious mammals and birds, they
ie flock together, following the Leadership
III of whichever for the time takes it. Th'
IL idea issuggested that the senses may b
ly the guiding agent, that a fish goes nosin|
o. along the coast or tasting the streams
ed until it recognizes its own. The convex
ity of the eornea must afford the fishes
ed very limited range of vision. The sur
n, posed rdullnesso Of the sense Of smell an
Of taste in fishes might alone dispose q
lis the suggestion that these are employed
IN The following occurrence, however
lite would seem to decide to thecontrary
In The Russian River, lemptying into tn
Pacific, north Of San francisco, had il
ep mouth entirely closed by the waves 'du
ing the storm. The colony of salmo
is- made their yearly migration from til
Sc; deep waters toward the mouth of til
ON river, sandtmany of them raced itlroug
the the surf, and landed high and dry ontl
wo' sand that walled them out from theirn
tive river. The migration Of the saline
red into some Of the Pacific rivers is a fire.
ms zied advance over shoals, rapids and ca
ut, cades, far into thin streams and brook
lng where they arrive battered andweary,
accomplish their exhaustive repreducti
nst labors, and drop hack, dead and dyin
III, toward the sea. .....
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