The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1882-07-07
Raising and Protecting Fish.


Mr. d. Y Howell, superintendent Of
. the Ohio state fish hatcheries, advocates
concert Of action among the different
states 10 secure protection To fish during
portions of the year, and to prevent
their wanton destruction, Unless some
thing more is done than TO hatch eggs
and plant them in streams and lakes he
believes fresh fish will soon be too scarce
TO be used as q common article Of food.
In communication to Forest and
Stream he makes the following state
ments and suggestions;
We have two hatcheries, one located
at Toledo and the other at Sandusky.
They are both supplied with all the lat
est improvements and devices for the
successful working Of spawn and the
Matching and handling of the young fry
We have in use over four hundred Of
the Chase automatic jars, which are
certainly great success, being very
economical, simple, and convenient, and
are doing away entirely with the old
process Of trays.
Although last fall was the most I'M
favorable season since the organization
Of the commission for securing eggs,we
succeeded in taking about 60, 100000 or
over of the whiteiish spawn, and at
least so, 600, 900 were Matched and sue
cessfullv planted in the head waters OF
Lake Erie beginning at Stony point,
near the mouth of the Detroit riyer,a and
following the north shore around to the
south shore as far as Niagara reef, be-
low West Sister island There was also
planted around the islands and island
fisheries and at Huron about 3O,OOO,OOO
young whteiSh, They were deposited
very carefully, from three TO six miles
from the shore in front of the fisheries
from which the spawn was taken. We
have also deposited through the interior
of the state, in various public streams
and private ponds and lakes, several
hundred German carp, about 10000
young black bass, and 10000 brook
trout.
1t was the desire of the board Of COM
missioners that | should do all that was
possible for the interior Of the state so
| conceived the idea of Matching our
Lake Erie salmon, or, as some call
them. pickerel. or wall-cycd pike, al
though it was considered by some fish
culturists as an impossibility. am
happy to state, however, that have
successfully hatched this spring, at our
Toledo hatchery, several millions oil this
species, which we are now planting
through the interior waters of our state,
and have also several millions more OF
eggs now in process OF Matching at our
Sandusky hatchery. The fry are very
small when first hatched and carry a
large food sac, but are quite strong and
healthy, losing the sac in about ten days.
They then commence taking on the coll
or Of fish Up to that time they are
colorless and as transparent rs water IT.
self. We find them hardy fish to
transport. They will live five days
without change of water; we can not at
this date say how much longer, as that
is the longest time we have tried the
experiment We will have them on
hand for at least two or three weeks yet,
as our eggs are not all Matched. Should
they thrive, the time is not far distant
when all the streams of Ohio will TEEN
with the most delicious of food fish.
While the spawn is hard to take, and
difficult to iertilize and separate, still it
can be successfully manipulated and
hatched
One thing more would like to call
attention to. II is with regard to the
passage of law to increase the size OF
meshes in iishng-nets for the protection
of young fish. Is there not a better way
to accomplish the same endP 1t is Il
fact well understood by all fishermen
that there are no small or young fish
caught except in midsummer, or what
we might call the heated term. Atthat
time the adult fish retire from the mar
Gins of our lakes to the deeper and cool.
er waters for rest. The young and old
fish are seldom found together, for the
large fish feed upon tho small ones;
consequently, when the large fish are in
mid-lake. tho young are ashore, and
vice versa. Now, a law thatwould pre-.
vent all fishing from tho LIST OF June to
the 1st of October, with oil the devices
except the hook and line, would accom-
plisb tho desired opd without working