New-York tribune., 1881-03-31
THE CULTURE OF FISHES.
PLANS OF THE FISHERIES COMMISSION.
A SHORT Talk WITH PRuFkssOR sPE>CER F. BAIRD
cRu1sE OF THE F,sH HAWK, IHE PROPOSED

PLANS OF THE FISHERIES COMMISSION
A sHoRT TALK WITH PROFESSOR sPE>ChR F. BNihD
-cRuIsE OF THE FlsH HAWK, INK PROPOSED
NEW yRssFI-A CENTRAL PROPAGAiiNG STATION
lBY TELEGRAPH TO THE rRIBuNGI
W.suNGroN. March 30-lhe ofice Of Professor
F. 5. Bnrd. United States Commissioner oi r'Sn anu
Fisheries 10 busy place these DAYS As IkiBu"F
CORRESPONDENT entered it yesterday be found tue
CornuiIssIoner engaged with @ yonng gentleman
who had evidently come to Washington, not 10 seek
an office, but tn find an opportunity to engage ID
certain soIentIfc invesilgqt IN which -he Is III
terasfed He was dismissed with a letter 10 al
oifirer who can probably put hlm IN way l" ac-
comolsb bis desire. Then the Professor trahSac'eu
ccrtan business with visitor who'' Du'ibesS -
APPEARS Is TO make collections for sale oi sclen'"i0
books, especially reports and dccu heh'S p''"'''"
by the General Cover mrnt. Then mechapi0 0''i'
IN and received together with many cdu"'"S
as IN its safe Kerpng. what appeared
70 be moDs,r0us tobacco pipe
u,ioue dcsiqn of which be was Instructed To make
t,c-simIle-probaby 10 be deposited III tn' mamma
Museum Two or three attaches oi tue uS''. u''""
c,me N with printed proofs of scientific arlc'' ~"
a report which - IN course of preparations WIN -"
these came clerks aud other employees WIZ Na'Io"s
matters OF details, regarding wnich tieF receive"
instructions.
"A
sor conl give any time TO the correspondents ""o
asked: Have YOU anyt ing new"
"Well M. not much" was the reply. am
something like a man who Is wh.red through tine
country ona fast railroad tram. He may see thouS'
and new things bnt one succeeds anotherso RAPIDLY
fbat a the end OF his journey be cannot AZ once re-
call and describe any obi 'ct which struck hm a.
novel You have already how many different
thIrgs are brought before m" in a few minutes 1t
IS 30 all the time when am here"
Nevertheless the Professor told the Spondent
of some matters 1f general interest One of last WIN
trls floods in California destroyed the sal non hatch
,ng station of the United States Fish Com on
the McCloud RIVER Congress at the asf session ap-
propriated SIC 900 tOb expended 10 rebuilding that
station, Although the sum appropriated was hardly
fiieirnt Professor Bard expects 90 have the STA
ton rebuilt in time to resume operations at 'he be-
ginning Of the regular salmon-hatchlug season in
July next.
The steamer Fish Hawk was put into commission
last week and sailed for Albemare sound. North
Carolina where she will be engaged during the
mouth of April in the work of hatcnng herring and
sbad To be turned out IN Southern waters. The
Fish Hawk wall return TO the North aoout the first
of NAV, and will then proceed 10 the mouth OF the
Susauehanna where sue will remain nnt the close 0
the season for Matching sh d At the end oil the uHh
Matching season 1t il expected that several short
VOYAGES of exploration will be made with the YES
sci 10 the Gulf Stream IN other directions IN con-
tinuatun of the system of exploration which was IN
itiated last year. and winch yielded such cn results
In an economic as well a scientific s'nse. Pro-
fessnr Bal expects that bY the sum ner oil loN%
the new vessel which Is to be bult ior the use OF
the Fish CommisslOn aud for which an appropria-
tion OF $lO4000 vas made at the last session oil
Congress- will DO completed and ready for service.
The plans OF this will soou he rea ~. ana BIDS
will be invited for her construction. The vessel
will be bulls and equipped for IN all weathers
and waters and IT, Is confidently expected that very
rich results will reward the researches who will
be thereby made practicable.
Among Professor Baird's plans 70. the future work
of the Commission IL one for the establishment ~
some place on the southern COAST Of New England OF
a great fish propagailug station al depot. "qupped
with all the machinery aud Otdtr requisites and
convenrnces for conducting a work of snch
Importance AID magnllude as that o. the Fish
Commission has already become. When this plan
shall have been carried into operation local stHloh'
will be less important than thov are now ana the
.Fish Hawk" will he used mainly as dispatch boat
10 distrlpute the yonng dsh at dh reut places on
the Atlantic coast where the waters are 70 De
stocked. Professor Baira has not yet decided where
the crntral station shall De built, bnt Is considering
rbe relative advantages offered by situation. at
New Bedford and Woods Hole, Mass Newport. Il.
l. and other places As il ~ pro pable that an Glui-
r1um gI be established NJ the central Satl"n, nero
wall probably be considerable competition be'Wern
the different places from among which one must he
selected as tine site Of Tie prOpused station. ne
ur0le uf New port anxious that Cod-ierT liaf
ior Island IN Newport Bay si.Ond he chosen q tne
.Ita al lbs new alton. A portion Of tnat Island
will be occupied bV he Naval framing school, INT
II Is said tnAt this would no intererr wh iF occu-
pancy for he purposes of the Fish Commission.
TIE proposed aq laruIn wa be only an inrdontal
appe udage OF the prOpJ2Atin0 st4i", and professor
bard would not lbDk If t as M Independent enter
pr,se he Same machinery vhlch VIII oe leeded ln
,he work of tiah propagation during ciIh III 'ntns ~
m. wear will at the same time, serve All the pur-
poses of simplifying cVater and circulation Tor al
aGn mum. r." lu' OF me latc ~ a0"rhlJg
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