The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-07-23
FISH CULTURE HERE.
.n-eo STATES FISH COMMISSIONS
.,oox DURING THE PAST SEASON.
New Hatcheries Established and
ur,dreds of Millions of Fry Distributed.
r,,o North Pacific Railway Company
40 Engages In the Work.

.,.o Engages In tine "orh'
MO work of the United States fish CON-
ton during the past season has been
anormous. Over lCo,ooo,ooo cod Try
snt at Gloucester and Woodstock have
, . rlonted at the fisheries on the New
g gn',ond coast and O,00O, 900 shad col
I'll in the Potomac, Susquehanna and
no,avore rivers were distributed along the
Diontio coast from Massachusetts to Flor
.1a About 100 600, coo lobster have been
i aator mt Rockland, Me-, and New Lon
son Conn. These are being liberated 10y
"orcral vessels engaged in the work. 1t is
ovrectcd that 10000, 600 more VIII be col
tected before the end of the season Mack
erel work is now in progress at Woodshoil,
CIopcoster and Casco Bay, Me.
Trom the hatcherles on the great lakes
,,i.dtcd exclusively to white fish and lake
-. w 1o5. OOO. 600 white fish fry and IL |
ooo GOO lake trout fry have been matched |
and planted o..,. TN. Nooaho
40 Manchester, Ia, Lcadyille, Colo, and |
en- Marcos. Tex, have collected and dis
,nirnted =. coo. coo trout and about 100000
80 New stations will he established un-
dcr the recent appropriation bill at Black
IuIs :. D., in Now Hampshire and at
Irwin Tenn, and auxiliary stations arc
In contemplation on the Clackanas, Rogue
and salmon rivers in Oregon, on Puget
sonpd and the Little White Salmon river
a. washington and the McCloud, Battle
crook and Trinity in California. The
work of planting Pacific salmon, which
last year reached an aggregate OF 37,OOO,-
OO0 will he continued next fall. The
salmon industry on the Pacific coast Is of
vast importance, but Is not as yet as OK
tensiye on the Atlantic. Probably $4,000
would cover the Atlantic salmon catch
last season.
DIR. Ravenel, the superintendent of fish
culture. believes that the salmon industry
can be developed on the Atlantic coast,
and last fall about 8, 900, 900 Pacific salmon
of the Qunnat and Sockeye varieties were
PLANTED in the St. Lawrence, Penobscot
and Delaware rivers. The Pacific salmon,
while it will take fly, Is not the game
fish the Atlantic salmon is.
Over 90 per cent of the work of the COM
mission is devoted to commercial fish, en-
bracng the cod shad, white fish, pollock,
mackerel, tawtog, soup, sea bass, lake
trout, salmon, steelhead trout and Holsters.
In the northwest some interesting work
has been mapped out for this summer and
fall under the direction of DIR. Smith of
the scientific bureau. The study of the
conditions In the Columbia basin with
especial attention to the biological features
will be continued. Some years ago it was
found that the salmon did not run in the
upper Columbia, as formerly, nor In It's
tributaries like the Snake river. lnvesti-
cations were made to ascertain whether
this was due to distractions In the river,
but no impediments were found that had
not always existed The failure or the
salmon in the upper Columbia 1t was con-
cluded was due to the multiplication OF
fishing apparatus on the lower Columbia
and the enormous catch. This year some
interesting biological investigations Will
be made at Wallowa lake, in northwestern
Oregon, and another series of investiga-
tions on the chain of lakes beginning with
upper klamath and extending eastward
through central Oregon, including Sum
mer, Albert and other lakes. These waters
have never been Investigated, and 1t is not
known what fish they contain. 1t is be-
licycd to be only question of time when
they will become valuable as sources OF
food supply and the present inquiries are
for the purpose of determining what hsh
abound in their waters and what species
of the finny tribo they can be stocked with.
The United States fish commission ves'
sci Albatross, which has been In past years
engaged in patrolling Boring sea and the
Investigation of the seal rookeries, will this
year do legitimate fish commission work.
1t will be we'll equipped and will go to
southern Alaska to investigate the condi
tiOns on the salmon streams and make 9
systematic survey of those waters.
AS quantities of salmon are being taken
from these streams by the fishermen, un
less adequate legislation for the protec
ton of these fisheries Is soon enacted, the!
will be exhausted. One of the objects o.
the expedition is to study these conditions
with a view to making recommendation
to congress. Last year over 6O,OOO,oo'
pounds of salmon were taken from thes'
streams The proceeds from the Alaska
salmon catch alone every three years ag
gregate in value the amount paid for tina
territory by the United States to the Rus
sian government.
Alaska has, 1t is said, paid for hersel
many times over from the proceeds OF th'
seal fisheries. Between 150,OOO,OOO an!
200, 900, 900 pounds of salmon are annual
ly taken for food purposes on the Pacin
coast. In addition to this general worl
DIR. Charles HI. Gilbert of Leland Stanior
university, a well known ichtyologist un
der the direction of Commissioners Bird,
engaged in the study of fish life from tn
Golden Gate to the Columbia.
The San Francisco and North Pacln
railway has established hatchery for th
trout in Gibson canyon, near Ukiah. In
hatchery has capacity for several miliio
eggs. In Marin, Sonoma, Mendocino an
Lake counties there are over 300 streams
For the past four years this road ma
been stocking it's streams with trout. In
management has now determined 10
crease the supply of trout and has erecte
hatchery. This is said to be the iirst II
stance of railroad resorting to this metz
cd Of increasing its travel.-New Orieai
Times Democrat.