Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1883-05-02
FISH NOTES.

IHGIS.
The first Connecticut River shad we're
caught on the 18th of April. All the
spring fish are backward, in accordance
with the lower temperature of the wa
ters.
10 stock the aquaria at the London
Fisheries Exhibition, Lord Walsinghanl
proposes letting off the water from q
lake on his estate at Merton, and with
the fish taken to supply all the specimens
required
HERR Won BEHR, the most distin-
guished of the German fsh-culturists
mentions the catching of California sal
mon in the River Isar. It is believed
that IN time they will work their way to
the Black Sea.
In Georgia carp-culture is an assured
success. Carp grow IN this state to
large size in an exceedingly short time.
Lately, pond having been drawn off in
middle Georgia, they were found in all
stages of growth, some being two feet
long and weighing over five pounds.
In South Carolina the state fish COM
m1ssioners are stocking the Edisto with
young shad ard other streams with Cali
fornla trout and the ponds with German
carp. The state has two regularly es
tablished hatcheries and breeding ponds
at Columbia, and it is almost Impossible
to supply the demand for carp.
A RATHER heroic treatment has been
tried with young salmon in order to get
rid OF the tungus-they were dipped in
asphalt. Mr.. Behler, of Druid Hill.
Baltimore tried this, and the bulletin of
the United States fish commission, re-
porting this experiment, states that, ac-
coIding to Mr.. Behler, the fish came out
all right and he althy.
IHE possibility exists of producing q
hybrid between the shad and striped
bass, or blending of the cEeboeo5ds and
percoid8. The melt of a striped bass
was taken with the roes of a shad and
the eggs Matched, The preponderance
OF character was mostly on the side of
the shad. Whether they can be reared
remains to be determined.
How flying fish keep on their course
has not yet been, accurately determined.
Can they only keep on while their ex-
banded pectorals are still moist A
writer In Science describes some of their
flights, and believes that they can turn
to the right or left, ascend or descend at
will in the air. The longest fight noted
of these fish in the Hawaiian Pacific was
a half mile.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS, the study of
shel-ish is very curious one. Early
man not only ate mollusks, but used the
shells as primitive ornaments. In Per-
uvlan graves we get ideas not only of
mans early civilization, but of the geo.
graphical distribution Of these she'll
fish. So far 81 different kinds of she'll
fish have been found In South American
graves; some of them evidently came
from long distances.
Mr.. LIVINGSTON STONE. superintend
ent of the McClOud River Fish-breed-
ing Station, states that In 1872 there was
not white man to be found III Califor-
MIA, who knew at what season a salmon
! spawned there. The first clue was Civ.
en- from the fact that an Indian was seen
spearlng salmon on the McCloud River.
and that the ripe spawn ran from the
t1sh when 1t was captured. Mr.. Stone
went to the McCloUd on the 29th of Au-
gust and verified the fact.
The dispute as to the person to whom
was due the credit of making the first
experiments in fish culture has elected a
reply from Dr. lheodatus Garlick,
which appears in the Cleveland Her
aid. DR.. Garlick distinctly states
g that he read a paper before the
Cleveland Academy of Natural Sciences
detailing his experiments in propagat-
ing by artificial methods the brook
trout" The best authorities in the Uni
ted States do not dispute DR.. Garlick's
Just claims.
The salmon run in the Oregon and
California Rivers is backward this sea-
son, but the catch can hardly be deter
mined before the 1st of next month.
Fish were last week worth 81 apiece at
the Columbia and so cents at the Sacra-
mento River. At the same time last
year they sold for 70 and 40 cents each.
| The fall of snow in the mountains near
the Columbia is said to be less than last
year, which may work advantageous
ly In the future, tor high river all ows
| salmon to escape capture, while q low
river does not
WHALE-oI is now being brought in
| bulk cars across the contlnen6 to New
York, instead of by the Cape Horn route.
The total amount so far received by Mr..
Frederick Habishaw, the pioneer in this
business, is $4,000 gallons. AS San
the Pacific it is only question Of time
when the major part of this product will
be brought from the west to the east.
Mr.. Habishaw thinks that in a few years
the manufacturing of the oil will be car
ried out in San Francisco instead OF New
Bedford.
THERE are discussions of an antiquar-
ian and classic character as to whether
the Romans imported their oysters from
England. JuvenaI is loud in his praises
of the English oyster, but then the
Roman gourmand of Caesars time and
afterward ate the oyster in England just
taxed from English waters. 1t is quite
doubtful, then, that oysters were ever
shipped to Rome from Britain for the
transportation by sea must have been
long one. Certainly the Roman epicure
was not like George l. or Thackeray's
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