The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-01-21
ON AN INSPECTING TOUR.
COMMISSIONER CARY LOOKING
AFTER THE FISHERIES.

His Conference With the Gun Clubs in
Reference to Game Law-What he
Says About the Fishery Interests
The Planting of Carp in the Savannah
River-The Run Of Shad Into the st.
John's-The Oyster Interests.
DR.. H. II. Cary. State Fish Commits
sioner, came down from Atlanta yesterday
morning on his way to Florida. He stopped
over here TO inspect the fishery interests
and TO confer with Wardens Westcott and
Creekman, and left last night for the st.
Johns
In the afternoon he had a conference with
representatives of the local sporting clubs
in reference TO a game law There is a
recognized necessity for law to guard the
varied game of Georgia from
indiscrimnate slaughter. The gun clubs
are moving in the matter, and DR.. Cary
says that he will back them in it. A bill
will probably be introduced at the next ses-
sion Of the Legislature and strong effort
will be made 70 secure protection to the
local game interests.
THE FISH INTEREST GROWING.
In regard to the fisheries OF the State,
fish caught in Georgia in the past year than
there has been for many years, The shad
season is approaching and "A few are now
being caught. The season will continue
until April 20, except on Saturdays and
Sundays Of each week, which are 'closed
days
The Savannah river shad are far-famed,
and they are being caught in larger quanti-
ties every year. The planting Of carp,
tahi 81 mi ig
now carried on in open waters. Two thous-
and carp were planted in the Savannah
river last fall. In year these fish, with
proper food, will be from foot to a foot
and half long.
THEY GROW FAST.
They are a rapid growing fish, and Dr.
Cary says that he has known them to grow
five pounds in seven months, which is al
most phenomenal growth, and sounds
very much like fish yarn. Nevertheless
DR.. Cary says that il is fact. Until re-
fined TO ponds Now that
they are found to flourish in
open waters, they are being more widely
distributed The Fish Commission expects
to establish a hatchery at Atlanta in the
spring, and as soon as this is done, the sup
ply will be greatly increased, and the
distributing viii be carried on much more
extensively LllhIl IL Is now. ub OUIeCb VI
DR.. Carys visit to Florida is to inspect the
St. Johns river lisheriec.
sHAD IN THE ST. JOINS.
The shad are now coming into the St
Johns, and have been coming
in since November as far as the
brackish water extends. This is some.
thing unheard of before, and Dr.
Cary is going to look into the matter. The
shad is peculiar fish in its habits, and
where it goes to after it leaves the rivers
nobody has ever been able to find out Of
late years, since the artificial planting be-
gan, it has been coming up the rivers
emptying into the Gulf, and it seems every
year to come farther up from the ocean and
deep water.
STUDYING THE SHAD'S HABITS.
The government authorities are constant
" studying the fish, and may be III time
they will find out more about it than is now
known.
DR. Cary says that the fishery laws in this
district are well looked after and enforced,
and that there is a disposition on the part of
fishermen generally to conform to the law
In regard to the oyster interests he says that
| the resources of the Georgia coast are sim
ply astonishing. They are almost beyond
computing, but there is no law to protect
| them, and until there is they can never be
properly and profitably developed.