The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1882-04-18
WillELlNG. ". Va, AFRlL rs, 1851,
sAIT wATER PISIT IN THE OHIO.
No Shad Yet Above I.onIsvIIIe-COnVer
AatIOn with Commissioner Miller.

.RaHT WATER PINlI IN THE OHIO.
---- - $780,.
NO Shad Yet Above l.onlSNIllT s.',S"r
AatiOn WAN Commi'"'"heF A
We had a conversation yesterday win
Fish Commissioner Miller in regard to the
,,rol,oh;,;,v NJ tho nppparance OF shad this
F'SV'V! :, ~, IfD,,or Oh;o II
season IN the waters VI 'iu oPFe' ~, ~
will be remembered that they uiu not
come above Louisville last season. AT
loost ,horc ,yos nonpthentic report Of their
''''''' '''s'U .II,.,,,l, .l,o,o ,,o,o
appearances h'sner up "'.'Aous" 'te' ''s
unofficial reports as to shau having Deen
eappht nj Huntington, in this State. As
.o,ti.,.,,. ~ .ho Srbtoct ~ conversation
PN -. - =. H. ~
about shad, Mr. Miller h'hueu uS 'ue lo''
lowing summary OF some recent remarks
FINN Tho Fish Commissioner Of Virginia
-ai.,,,,a =, tho hohi,. ~ Tho sbod which
fe'a'iNe W '"0 a"V,'0 W '''U - ~ -, -
are looking for their appearance in our
waters this season. It is intended to show
Ln,,, ,,,o ,ni,ro,o-y bab;ts NJ Tint fish are
~" 'us s"'' '"p'' s' 80 - 49, -
Affected ny inc temperature ol ulo wafer
in which they live:
That iTsh Matched in Certain waters will
uspaIIy retilrp 10 them inter wiuterinR in
the ocean Il n well.nitested iaCt. That it
Il not always true was first particularly
noticed In lie case OF some shad Matched
In Tho Connecticut river and placed in the
Secro,nento river In California. Il WAS
found tnat when thew came in from the
sea IN tle spawning season they went TO
every river on Inc Pacific coast. The expla-
noii9n commonly given 6ad been that the
nan remembered their spnwning grounds
and returned 10 them through Instinct
and over this habit much poetry and sen.
timent have been wasted The almost en-.
tire ahsonce of menbaden from the waters
on the coast of Maine for two
sncceedinR wears led TO an exam.
nation az the water temperature. and IL
was found that during the two wears when
.tbe schools Of fish did not appear off thg
Maine coast the water was 30 colder than
tho normal temnerntllre Of tho water which
fhe i,sh were In the habit of freuuentinv
Consenpentlv thew went elsewhere To find
wnter ~ the rinht Temperature in which Ia
SHAWN, This led TO iurthcr observations
esneciallv directed towards the habits al
the sbs,l. II was discovered Tint the nor,
mai temneratnre NJ the yvater in which the
sbad lives Ia between C0o and 70O ThT
fish will MT enter n river IN denosit its spawr
mil Tint 'femnern,mre If iresb watSr !.
fonnd
Although nothing il known of the ocean
life If the fish. Il h undonbtedly the faci
tbot tbey follow constnntlv isothermal lines
soaking always nm eonahie water tpmnnra,
tnre. That they will moi slav in water
after the normal tenn n,,rat,,re i nasseJ l.
shown nv their leaving Their spawnin"
grounds when The water becomes warmer
and thew probable seek tho Arctic stream
which rms alongside the Cinli stream n Sn
in tLe 81 Jobn's river, Florido the sb"d
20 there dnriny the months If Novemhs,
ana December and leave wher
The woter Incomes wHrmer mor
nrenoreI nv The commission show,
Hid Theory 70 In trne for ' on
Il the corefnItv nronorpd lines NJ the HNc,
tnot;ons NJ catch and NJ the ,vator tSrnor,
atnra follow ona "nnth.r vary cIossl,
sinonlar fact ia that tho shnd onter tIs g.
John's river when the lem nerotnre il r;S;nS
and ali other Atlantic rivers when Tho fore
neratnre IL iailin" theory in N" cos sen 81
the fish who do not N IN he bot'om ms ,o ~
their food which Sc SdvHncoJ w"s I'm, tbo
food NJ The snriace fab also follows n te Ss
peratnre patb. and the fish follow thc food
The fact that millions OF California sal.
mon had been put in the rivers of the At.
lantic coast as fry and lad never returned
to their homes was alluded to. Just WHY
this was so he could not explain, but his
theory was that the water temperature
natural to the California salmon in the
spawning scason-July and August-was
much lower than that OF the waters in
which it had been originally placed Led
perhaps by instinct they may have return.
cd to the rivers in which they had been
placed when young, and finding the waters
too warm they had gone back Ia
cooler waters in the ocean, and
there, or in still cooler rivers which
thav fOuni had IanOGitnI thar Uno,yn