New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-04-05
LOCAL MISCELLANY.
THE HABITS OF FISH.

,rrr,p prcRrAsu IN THE GREAT IAKEs-MRs.
LEWIS ON THE NECESSITY OF GOOD COOKING.
The concluding session Of the American Fish Gui-
ura Association held Xestsrday IN tn ne E S
son;an Institution. opened the exercises with paper
ON the {" Decrease Of Fish in the Great LAKES ~
shown by carefully pfe Saber Of fish
canaht in the lakes has taken place;
This decrease the speaker said. was due to seveTal
causes, one Of which was the pollution OF notber
cause was the catching of small flsh by having tle
net used too closely woven. tie recommended that
the States contiguous to the lakes snonu as in.
troduced as the grandfather of iish-cuture' Ieau
paper on the propagation of sturgeon ana stI1pcu
bass He suggested means by which the ulihcuiues
encountered in this might be overcome No., 80,
s letter was read from Mr. johnson, of Boston, on
the subject of the lobster. lie TOOK very slt"ns
cround against the marketing OF small iopsleis,
the sale OF which cut of the supply OF the 5ntuie ny
gradually DISCRIMINATING the species Sir @
remarked this subject that tins CITY soGu tho
a game constable TO arrest anyone violating .uI
law by selling understood Holsters MIS- LeWlSto V 9
the floor to make remarks ON the carp ou. sie
drifted OFF into some generalities aoo"' 'n0 s''"'
pVn, hreed 6sh she continued to catch 'em,
and you catch 'em 10 cook EN- Livery nsn naS
r;ght 10 demand that il be cooked properly
consider man simply as machine 10 wor ,,,, nP
matter and what he can do III day depends nu0 ~
on what he has for breakfast and the way !. -
cooked The morality OF country 1epehus lmt nv =;
on the amount of fish it consumes 10 put trout ! ~
Lot water to is simply terrible tui u aooao
the water. Steam it. get cross WIN ss WITH
Rooseyelt because he insists on cooking hsh VIII i
wine and onions. They don't go together, ne
time will come. gentlemen. when there VIII oe d
cooking commission 1t may ho' co''o loi " nun
The mkt paper was by Professor John 4; Ryder
of the Smithsonian Institution, on the Dreeu''s
food and the cause of the green color OF he oS
He described the process of Matching the oyster ana
Ills habits when young SO far, he sad, III ar'IhC
nronsoation no one had been able to carry the
.nunr he 81
It's deyeiopment. But in few years the dlucui'iITss
now encountered would probably be overcome. IL
they were not the oyster supply "oui" o''o'"' "a
Colonel ". Mcdonald was asked to speak on the
subject of the migration OF the sHal .snr r, hmf
he said usually returned to Its natT9 stream . Luz
it did not invariably 90 so. Inc oiu LneoI -.
the shad was guided to the riyer WheTe ~ ~ a.
spawned by instinct he did not thlnk helu 49, ~
There was a controlling force higher than the hsl
By a series of experiments 1t had been found Una.
the habits of the shad were largely depflue, upo
waters III which he had been wl .Luo,
and went into the rivers when the teIhleTaIIo 80
roc or 600 In the autumn when the Temperature
was below 800 it sought the deep waters Gg1 the
Tie only exception to tins rule was lounu IA t
shad of the 81. johns River. lReSi Mo'do d lft II
river when the thermometer was tainng ana l1l' ~
when il rose beyond certain point. III was atso Il
fact that fish in the moved III lines OF even .ih
nerofure AS the California salmon planted on ING
Atlantic coast never returned II was sueges'?Go'
that the explanation might DE louuu III
the difference in the conditions OF the Temperature
When led by its Instincts to seek spawning grouhus
at certain season the temperature of the rivers on
this coast was too high - eh~;o.
samuel Wimot, superintendent of the hsheres
of the Province of Canada, SAID that ne thouSHIo
that the salmon returned year after year 10 us
native waters by its instinct such an Ignorant
fish as the shad might be controlled by temIerature
but he did not think that the salmon was MI VII
mot then read a paper on the o' decrease IN
salmon in Canadian waters" Tins decrease,
he remarked was extraordinary. Adequate causes
for il coud not be found, but it could be explained
in part by the abuses prac tiSed by fishermen lhere
were also probably natural causes az WORK wncn
DESTROYED the eggs and perhaps the fish themselves
This sudden decrease OF the salmon was found 20 oc-
cur almost at regular intervals. About twenty-five
wears ago mackere suddenly disappeared from the
coast OF Newfoundland, and did not return untll
last summer, when they swarmed into every nook IN
the island The last paper gave a graphic uei
scription of the manner of happening the SWORD
fish. meeting Of the association vii! be held as
usual next year.