Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-09-13

private cultivation is not a new idea in
some of the tributaries of the Chesapeake
in that state. II was not until 1906 how
ever, after a decade of agitation and po-
litical controversy, that the legislature
passed the present law authorizing the
leasing of all the unproductive beds in
the Chesapeake bay. The law has not
been in operation long enough to justify
the prediction that the oyster will again
be as plentiful In the Chesapeake bay AS
1t was twenty years ago. In Baltimore.
which witnessed the decline of its pack
ing industry and the gradual diminution
of the oyster supply. 10 doubt its success
is treason. In many tidewater counties OF
the state, where sentiment is influenced
by the dredgers and tongers who regard
the bay as public property that has been
alienated to private control in defiance of
their rights. prediction that the law will
be failure is a popular one. The senti-
ment, which was sufficiently strong TO re-
tard the passage of the measure now in
operation. still prevails and those inter-
ested in American fisheries will welcome
news of increase in the supply OF
Maryland oysters through the operation
of the law. Oyster culture is depart
ment of the nations fisheries that the ma
ton NAV aid only by instruction and adj
vice Its future lies with the respective
states DR.. II. +. Moore will address tho
congress on American oyster culture
and one of the delegates from Maryland
will be &. Howard Hannah. a Baltimore
lawyer prominent in the struggle 10 in
troduce the leasing system, and author
of the law, which. after notifications,
was placed upon the statute books
In selecting as the subject of the essay
for which 1t offers a prize international
Regulations of the Fisheries on the High
Seas Their History. Objects and Re-
suits" the Smithsonian Institution un-
doubtedIy selected one of the most i'm
portant subjects which will be brought to
the attention of the congress.
Jafn
congress. besides those TO which reference
has been made are one by Tarleton III.
Ban, state fish culturist of New York,
formerly of Washington. on The History
of Fish Culture, one by X. l.. I1ker Oh
North Carolina and the Johns Hopkins
University, Baltimore, on Guano-pro-
ducing Beds" one by George w. Field.
president of the Massachusetts state
board on the lobster industry, and one by
Dr. w. w. Yen, secretary OF the chinese
legation on Chinese fisheries. Papers Will
also be read by DIR. +. w. k.verman OF
the bureau of fisheries. this city, promi-
nent contributor to piscatorlal literature
by John w. Titcomb of the same bureau
by Prof. Parker of Harvard University
and many others.
p A. Surg and Joseph Goldberger VIII
be delegates to the congress from the pub
lie health and marine hospital service.
DR. B. H. Ransome will represent the
bureau of animal industry, Clifford Pm
chot the bureau of forestry and Or l. ..
Palmer the biological survey.
Among the foreign delegates will be Or.
T Kitahara of the japanese department
of agriculture and commerce and Imperial
Fisheries Institute. Chang Venting, kuo
Gen-ming, DIR. WEIGHING Yen and Chu-
kang Chen of China. Prof. +. r. Prince,
Dominion superintendent of fisheries. Cam
ada; Dr. r. E. Cocker, Peru; Lieut.. Conn
mander Raider de Aquino. Mexico; DIR.
Ramon Gengoechea. Guatemala; DIR. Helm
rich Won Kadich and Franz Won Tirko,
Austria; DIR. Walter Naumann, German
Fisheries Society. Germany. DR.. Decio
Vincigueria. i'm charge of the royal fish
cultural establishment, Rome; Prof. p. p.
c. Hook, scientific adviser to the Dutch
government the Netherlands: DR.. Antipa,
Roumania, and DR.. FLIP Trybom. Swe-
den.