Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1893-08-04
MANY MILLIONS OF EGGS.
by tho United States Fish
Commission All Over tho G; untry.

Distributed by tho United States Fish
Commission All Over tho C. untry.
The United States fish commission,
which busics itself with the propaga-
ton and distribution of edible fish in
tho waters of all parts of tho country,
stocking rivers with species now to the
region, distributing eggs and young
fish to the lakes and ScacoaSts, md
working in vast number OF ways to
the one end, distributed during the
year 1892 tho prodigious number of
800, $50, 432 eggs and fish, embracing
nearly every kind of food fish known
to tho world. The largest operations
were in shad. Next to shad, cod was
the fish most distributed, and of white
fish, lake trout, pike, perch, salnon,
fat fish and lobstcrs tho distribution
of eggs and young fry ran far up into
the millions of each, almost every
state and territory getting n share.
The work of the commission is of great
Importance and substantial value.
From year to year the results arc
cumulative and already arc becoming
worth millions of dollars annually to
the country. 1t is regarded by the
Portland OrcJoniaa as singular that
nature has not developed various kinds
of fish in all waters well suited to
them; but it is SO, and the work of the
commission to IN extent thus supplies
deficiency of nature. Shad, for
example. was not 4 native fish in our
Pacific coast waters, but the COM
mission has introduced it, and now it
is beginning to appear in numbers in
most of our streams from California to
Alaska.
The commission is giving great at
tcntion to study of tho oyster and
means and conditions of it's proraga-
ton. 1t is admitted that on or coast,
as we'll rs Oh the Atlantic. there arc
many places where cultivation of the
oyster can be carried TO Il high degree
of perfection, with increasing profit
On the coast of New Grey canals have
been dug from the ocean into the in
terror on y rmall scale, opening into
ponds, and the :uccc"s that has been
attained IN the production Of the oy-
stcr in that locality proves that it the
work were carried out On IN extended
scale it wou]d bccCrac a source of i'm
mcnsc utility and profit. The like can
be done at numerous places on the Pa
cific coast, where frC: h ard salt water,
under proper conditions, can be
brought together. Success in oyster
culture depends, to a very great extent,
upon the feeding conditions that the
oyster can obtain. The French have
developed the conditions OF oyster pro-
duction with highest success. They
have proved in tho use of the still pond
how to provide the best conditions for
profusion of food organisms as the
snrcst aid to the rapid and tasteful
conditioning of the oyster They crc-
ate a pond, shallow and we'll warmed,
almost currentlcSs, where salt water is
kept uniformly tempered by fresh
streams, the bottom so disposed that
tho sediment, otherwise very fatal,
will deposit naturally in the trenches
and rot ovcrsprcad the prolific beds of
oyster food organisms. 1t is necessary
to learn and follow tho conditions Of
success developed elsewhere through
experience. and adapted and modified
to our particular situations if wo
would get satisfactory results in mat
tors like these. It is clear, however,
that this general science of propaga-
ton of life in the waters. for utility
and profit of man, is yet but in it's in
fancy. The development of it through
study and experience is clearly des-
tined to great results.