Evening star., 1899-07-08

vincia1 English restaurants Unto not a
few, in fact, of the restaurants of London)
is thrown into mellow, reminiscent mood
In putting away succulent, fiaky American
rock bass like his mother used to broil for
him on Fridays on this side of the At
lantic.
Few Requests Refused.
By this time the United States fish COM
mission, in addition to its regular business
of stocking the rivers lakes and seacoast
bays of the United States with fish of va
rious commercially valuable varieties, had
become pretty well known to the world in
general as distributor of fish eggs and
fry, and. perceivfng good thing when they
saw 1t, the worlds fish commissions be-
came exceedingly solicitous to possess the
good will and kindly patronage" of the
United States fish commission. Their ex-
pressions of profound regard and intense
respect generally contained postscripts ap-
parently inserted as mere afterthoughts,
requesting the high privilege of trying in
the waters of their own countries one or
more varieties of the truly magnificent and
SO unquestionably superior fish (preferaby
in the form of able-bodied fry. If you
please) over which their own gourmets
raved. Even with its large number of we'll
equipped hatcheries, it's large force of en-
ployes and its enormous territory from
which to select specimens, the United
States fish commission found it difficult for
time TO keep pace with these gracefully
put requests. Few of them, however have
been refused.
Worked to Our Disadvantages.
In a few instances, however, this gratui-
tous distribution of American fish by the
fish commission has given the recipients of
the favors certain commercial advantages,
in which the United States has got a triffe
the worst of it. A few years ago the fish
commission yielded to the urgent appeals
OF the colonial government of New Zealand,
and sent to that antipodean land a consid-
efable consignment of the fry of the fam
Gus Chinook salmon from the Columbia
river. These salmon took to the New Zea-
land waters like African monkeys to shelled
brazll nuts. The New Zealand climate,
temperature of the water sea and river
1ood, and SubaqueouS social conditions lust
suited them exactly. The struggle for ex-
lstence, compared with that which they
ana their progenitors had to endure in the
depths of the overcrowded Columbia was
as nothing at all, for, until their advent
tne salmon was unknown in the waters of
New Zealand, and salmon diet was there
lore plentiful and various. The result is
mat the main rivers of New Zealand with
sea outlets are now alive with huge Chin
ook salmon, q distinct species of American
sea saimon In the New Zealand waters
they attain size even greater than that of
the Chlnooks taken up in the SiWash corn-
Try, and as a recently returned traveller
from the antfpodes puts it, 1.-The Chinooks
are ar. SO thlck in the waters of New Zealand
mat they practically butt into each other in
thelr eHorts to get into the salmon fisher
mems seines." Large canneries have been
established in New Zealand seacoast cities
and towns for the canning of these Amari
can salmon, and New Zealand canned sal
mon Is rapidly gaining ground
Ii is said that the New Zealand canneries
are: are now directly competing with the Amer
lcah salmon canGeries at the mouth of the
Columbia river otably at Astoria Orc
ana me salmon Canneries run by Amer
lcans IN Alaska, for the trade of the world.
ana II Is likewise said that they are under
selling the American salmon Gamers
california ma1 told the writer the other
aay that he is able to buy a can of New
Iealand salmon in San Francisco Tor n bit
itss nt money than he has to pay for a can
OF oregon salmon. and that the New Zea-
land article is quite as good as the Astnri.
canned product.
Too Much Else to Do.
Ihls Is of course a somewhat unusual
case, but 1t applies in lesser degree To some
other countries which have been the re-
cinlent OF American fish fry, and the dis
trloutlon of fish fry by fish commission
TO 1oreign countries has been considerably
reduced during recent years for this ~ea-
son. ~
AS matter of fact the United States
llsn commission is acquiring. from year to
year sufficient amount of work TO keen
II puSy within the borders of the United
safes without extending its beneficent
transportation of scores of millions of sell
mon. shad, lobster. mackerel herring, lake
trout and other fish eggs keeps the 19o and
ODD field employees of the fish commission
III pretty constant state of rush The four
cars especially constructed for the trans
portatlon of fish eggs and fry are constant
~ on the move, and the commission always
mas enough orders on hand for the restoclx
Ing of hundreds of interior lakes and rivers
with various kinds of fish to keen ali hands
BUSY for long time ahead 1t is only
Wltnlh the past few years that the facr has
become generally known throughout tho
country that the fish commission makes .
business of stocking the depleted lakes and
rivers of the country with fish eggs ami
Try, ana now that this IS thoroughly we'll
known the demand keeps we'll ahead of the
supply. "a NV
Oysters and Lobsters,
Ih1s, however, is only one of the ramif-
cations of the fish commissions work. IT
is claimed with pretty fair show of rea-
son, that the cod and mackerel fishermen
or the New England coast owe it to the
hsh commission that the supply of these
kinds of fish has not long ago died ont
some Dlilfons OF cod and mackerel eggs are
planted off the New England coast every
year by the employees of the commission
ana they are now engaged in a hard strue-
gle to save the lobster to future generations
py piacing the lobster eggs produced at
the seacoast hatcheries of the commission
IN various bays along the Maine and Mas
sachusetts coasts Then, for several wears
the commission has been endeavorins TO
induce the Chesapeake bay oyster to i've
and be happy in California waters. The
chesapeake bay oyster has persistentIy de-
clined to do this for good many wears
III spite OF numerous attempts and all man
ner of encouragement on the part of the fish
commission; but it is said that there are
now indications that the oyster is trif1e
more inclined to follow the star of empire
westward and consents to live out there in
gradually increasing numbers
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