, 1881-05-20
PISCICULTuRE.
Tho Wonderful Work Thai IL HAHN.
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P1SCICULTURE.
Tho wonderful Work That Ii Rptns
Dono.
a New York Herald correspondent, |, a.
present writing some letters from on board
the steamer Fish Hawk. Thls Is the ycsspi
built for latching purposes by the United
States FISH Commission.
Tho SUCCESS Of the enterprise thus far ran
only bo called extraordinary. The Atlantic
Coast is now being replenlshed with dcIlc.oua
food fishes at rate that probably
even Prof. Baird never drcamed Of
Science is beatinc Nature Mt he,
own methods. It has been found thet
III tho open waters LIS palrs Of shad will no.
produce rs many young fish rs one pair DO
by tho artificial process. In the production
OF salmon tho difference Is much greater.
Left to themselves, less than Sper cent Of tho
salmon eggs produce fish. by tic artificial
process nearly 90 per cent Of tho young lsh
1ro renretl.
Few. processes nre more Interesting than
that Of tisl'.l!ateliing; It l. rs marvellous as
to lind the spawning grounds Of tic fiji
the Commission desired 10 propagate.
This WIS not always easy. To this
dny they hnye nut been ablo to find
for certntn wltero tlle striped bass deposits
Its eggs. 1t Is ono Of the best fish IN At
% Sind. the % salmon, @ and s tl,a y highiy.paseI I
Spanish nlackarel llaye nlready beun searched
out, nila the number Of these have been III
crense1 by millions, 49,.
The Fish Hawk is like any ordinary vessei,
except that sl,e has large amount of deck-
rooni. Tho deck Is covered With hatch!ng-
11NHh Inn1 yl1 fnH ann 1f A nIAffnFJ1
Is built nround tho aldes Of the vssseit and
FROM this nre suspended Matching cylinders
Of different pattern from tho cones Ihe
capacity OF the Fish nawk is thus doubled
lmagination can hardly fathonl tae ae. nun. H
verts Into healthy young fish III stnsla
season. The spAWnlng-titne comes earlier
along the const OF the Southern States. Ihs
Fish Hawk begun when the season opened.
off North Carolina, and Is to follow the
eoast Hp north isoppng 9@st as hs sap sp1wn II o
1T Salmon Creek, which emptics Into Albe@
marle Sound, for tho Sind spGwnlng.,
4 few years ago there was danger tliat ina
sllad fisheries thereabouts would be entirely
extaused. Tho eatcll WIS declining steaailIy K
ut rate Of 400 year m typ w., yefS,s Sya a9o ss,fs
before il Ind been N,o00. Tho Fish coul,n!s..
sion has not been In operation very long. LaM Il
year was the frat in which any results fron u
could have been obtalned. Yet last ycaf ~ me
shnl fishery auddpnly mounted up " a1oeo'
l'he Fish lIawk ean hatctl y, 900 shaa 90
iivo days. So this ono vessel can turn oat
l2O, 600 900 OF young sllatl q noht!. .ha
The Albernlarlo Hi!ad tis!iaries 9le " ~
largest IN America TIE fishing Is a9''S " sSsn w
neariy mile and half long One ea,h Of tnsse ie
seines tho correspondent snw atawn ~ II
contalned fish enough to -" pea. rho1s Wv
Sixth Street Market q .lnontll,, ,l;LiaaS lhc.SS
wore 14O, 600 herring, 600 sllaa. aW ss s''PM ss
bass, aud lot Ito marks mscs'!afGionIsSh h.as 1J
attendants t9ok tue sSu 10 up nEoeess ~ st becorr
spordont 500 calls milking" PERHAPS b. f! ilaa IL,
Ieel a country youth in tho days q ~ ~
i,ocunce. and know whereof lle WAS h,1!H;; n,aT;
4 single shad Yields from ~ '0Do y batsSe, 'vS
eggs: The Commission sagGs Ts, a,n tI1n hafetiy l
nesy % q isa Gnitsd G1 {s states @ 9
II, ti,n world. At these rates tue unT'y1H
States Fish Commission will g. speesI1ISS HISS
b. able to supply oil tue wo{aa ,he .Ttid. Tns
young "fry," ns they ,a nnn.o taoso,l sn0 q Ilnii
cIally.hatchcu infants lh's III sTasbt M sent 10
Georgia. 1t is said this will sloek s's''
A'Ii la - water Il. tho hatchery cones ~, y fsp FL
Mt tha snn0 Temperature ~ that ~ NV On. us
s,ad spawning grounds, II u IT., nery, Ind
tie, constant motion py n'ue"''''''
aef9aed nprnyso.ts ~ atS sn Tint experience A. 49,
Yankee 1a, ye ss spaSifS sast fSSensss1 s i
Of this marvel of scielltitle G.taft ,!utfr"t ths
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