Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-05-04
FISH NOTES.

million of young salmon have been
placed at the head of the Delaware River.
Germany, for some unknown reason
takes but little part in the English Fisher
les Exhibition.
The first porgie, always the forerunner
of the first Spring seafsh, was taken in
Massachusetts on the 26th of this month.
For purposes of bait for supplying
Gloucester fishermen during the last Win
ter, Friendship dug $500 bushels of clans.
The huge leather-back turtle reported at
sea, with fippers 20 feet long, is rightly
called by the New York Sun a marine jim
Jam.
A striped bass of Ga pounds was caught
yesterday in the shad nets off Governors
Island, and was brought alive to Fulton
Market
The dining rooms, with kitchens, where
fish are to be prepared and eaten at the
London Fisheries Exhibition have been
decorated and arranged at the expense of
the Baroness Burdett-Coutts.
Mr.. Z. G. Blackford exhibited on Satur-
day the finest general collection of live
cultivated trout yet coming from one pre-
serve. One hundred and four fish weighed
one pound each. They came from Prov1-
dence, r. ,.
The belostoma is an insect which attacks
and kills fish. In Iowa an observer writes
TO the American Naturalist of his having
seen belostoma, d of an inch long, at
tack and kill 4-inch fish. The belostoma
kills trout.
Tomorrow, by the Bremen steamer. the
New York State Fish Commission viii
send 10000 eggs of the California trout to
Herr Won Behr. This is return for many
courtesies rendered by him to American
hsh-culturists.
The striped bass or rock fish Of tbs Della
ware are reported as exceedingly scarce
there this Spring. The extensive dye
works on the Schuylkill and gas and
petroleum on that river have evidently de-
stroyed the fish.
A fish taken at Mill Greek, tributary
of the Willamette River, in Oregon, which
excited some curiosity, on being sent to
Prof. Blaird was found to be the Corego-
nus Williamsonii, and closely related to
the white-fish of the lakes.
Her Majesty, the Queen, will open the
International Fisheries Exhibition at Lon
don on the 18th of May. The exhibition
imagined by those concerned with it at the
commencement.
Vegetable parasitism seems to be so con-
slant as to be regarded as normal. M. M.
Olivet and Bichet, having taken fish and
coated it with paraffine so as to guard the
tissues from atmospheric germs, found
after few weeks an extreme development
of microbes, not the result of decom-
position.
are taken every year in the Delaware.
Formerly this fish was in little demand, but
to-day it commands a good price. The
business of smoking sturgeon, largely
eaten by the foreign population in the
large cities, can hardly find material suffi-
cient to work with.
At Portland, Oregon, smelt, found in
enormous abundance there, are being
canned. The fish are smoked and then
put in tins. If the preparations were
carefully done it ought to be an article of
food which would at once enter into con-
sumption. The smelt in the Pacific are
represented to be in much greater abund-
ance than on the Atlantic side.
The Illinois Fish Commissioners say in
their report in regard to carp: ''If proper
interest can be created, it will be only a
question of time when they will be cult
waited as generally on farms as are chick
ems and hogs, and when the small amount
of trouble and expense necessary for feed
ing them is considered, their Importance as
a food-producing source will be appre-
ciatedn