Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1897-06-24
TIE US. FISH COMMISSION.
Enormous Amount Of Work Performed
The Past Season.
summer and
GalL

W AbHINGTONJ June .4,-lno WOrR
Of the United States Fish com mission
during the past season hss been en0I-
NOUS. Over 100000, 600 cod fry,
hatchei at Gloucester and Woods
Hill, have been planted at the
fisheries on tho New England coast
ana 200, 900, 900 snaJ, Corrected in the
Potomac, susquehanna and Delaware
rivers were distributed along the At
lsntic ooast from Msssacnusetis 10
Florida. Adult 100,00O,000 lobsters
have been taken III Maine and q n.
mec,iout. These are being liberated by
several vessels 81 gageu 10 the work.
From the hstcherles on the Cir sat
lakes LIS 100000 white FISH try and
l50,O00,UUU lake trout Try have bsen
planted. The hatcneriss at Quincy,
Ills, Neosha, Mo-, Manchester, Iowa,
Leauviile, Colo, and San Marcos,
Texas, nave collected and distributed
5000 600 trout anu about 100000 bass.
A new station will be established Mt
Black Hills, 3. D., and auxiliary
stations are In contemplation in the
Cisckamas, Pogue and Salmon rivers
IL Oregon, on Puget sound anu the
Little White Salmon river In
q
BaIIle Creek and Trinity in CalIior.
niu. The work of planting Pacific
salmon which last yepr reacned an
aggregate Of S7,G00,O00 Will bs con.
tinueu next iaiI. rne salmon indus.
Try on the Pacific coast Is Of vast i'm.
pOrtance, but 10 as yet not exlensive
on the Atlantic.
Oyer 90 per cent OF the work OF the
commits on Ia devoted to commercial
iisu, embracing the cod, chad, white
fish, pollock, mackerel, tawtog, scup,
Tea bass, lake trout, salmon trout anu
Holsters.
In the Northwest some interesting
work has been mapped out Tor this
summer aud fall under the direction
OF DR.. Smith OF the scientific bureau.
The STUDY OF the conditions in the
Columb a pass with especial attention
to the biological features Will be c0u-
tinued. 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.
Inv .stigalions were made to ascertain
whether this was due TO distractions
In the river, but no inpediments
were found that not always
had existed. The failure OF
the salmon In the Upper Columbia I,
II was concluded, was due to the mu-
duplication OF fishing apparatus on the
Lover Colum Ola and lhe enormous
cRtcb, This year some interesting
biological investig atoms Will be made
at Walls Walla lake In northwestern
Oregon and other series OF 1nvestiga-
tons ON the chain OF lakes beginning
with Upper Klamath and extending
eastward through central Oregon, in-
Guiding Summer, Albert AMI iother
lakes. These waters have never beeu
tnyestigateu,a nu 1t ID not known what
nsh they contain. 1t IL believed 10 be
opIya question of time when they
will beeu me veiy valuable as sources
OF iood supply ana the present In
uuiries are 10 determine what species
lne waters uan be stocked with.
The United States fish commission
vessel A ipatros, which has been In past
years engaged In patroilins Boring
sea apu the Investigation OF the seal
Tookuries, will this year do legitimate
fish comm ssion work. She Will be
equipped AMI go to southeastern
Alaska to investigate the conditions
ON tue salmOn streams anu make
systematic survey OF those waters.
\
Vast quantities Of salmon are beng
lax, n from those streams by the fisher
men anu unless adequate legislation
for the protection OF these fisheries Is
COON enacted they will be exhausted.
One OF the objects OF the expedition 10
ia study these conditions with view
10 making recommends to Congress.
Tae proceeds from the Alaska catch
alone every three years aggregate IN
ampunt that paid ior that territory to
the Russian government. Alaska has,
IL is said, paid for herself many timer
over from the proceeus OF the seal
| fisheries.
In addition to this general work, DR..
Charles Ii. Gilbert Of Leland Stanford
university, u well known lcbtby0los
IA. under the direction OF Com niis-
slDuer BIRD, 10 engaged IN the study Of
dan life from the GJiden Gate TO the
siaiumbia. eH.