The enterprise-recorder. (Madison, Fla.) 1908-1933, 1909-06-10

the annual Yield will be a brr.,
fold the entire original cost ~ 80 ~.
experiment The fishermen bavo "
ready received twenty-five tbou.. slt
one hundred per cent. OF the orIs,aa,
investment Of the government asa
this, in hardly more than tyeptv.s-u
years. is a margin Of profit not easpS
paralleled.
The shad also has been the snh,..
OF government solicitude on tbe a.
lantic coast, and starting with aImn.,
depleted streams, the Bureau Of FlsS
cries and several OF the States wa.
able to build mp and for years mat
tain a great fishery for the peonl.
The absence of proper regulation nv
the States, however, has resulted 4,
destructive and excessive fishing; ana
most of the adult fish are now takss
before they reach the spavbins
grounds and become fully matursS '
so that It has grown year by yea,
more difficult to secure sufficient egg,
for the hatcheries. AS a result \,
recent wiser regulation in North Car.
DINA, there has been immediate I'm.
provement in the hatchery operation,
in that State.
Fish culture has shown itself com.
petent to handle the problems pre.
sented, and as soon as the States
show some adequate appreciation 1,
their duties, the now waning shad
supply can be re-established as
great producer of wealth.
Some Proofs of Success.
That the whitefsh and other lake
species have been able to sustain
such heavy fisheries is undoubtedly
due to fish culture, although in many
waters 1t is difficult to adduce proof.
The capture OF large numbers Of
certain well recognized races Of
whitefsh in some OF the Great Lakes,
when the only known and, in some
cases, only possible source Of supply
is through the hatcheries, is a strong
argument in favor Of the value Of
other hatcheries working with 10.
digenous races.
That hundreds of millions Of Pa,
cifc salmon planted in their nauJe |.
streams as fry return as adult ishN \
clearly shown by the capture Of adults
which were marked when liberated
a few years before. That the proper.
ton of these hatchery fry reaching
maturity Is considerable is shown BY
the results of the same experiments
In an article Of this scope It is i'm
possible to mention more than few
OF the thirty-fve or forty species reg.
ularly Matched by the Bureau Of Fish.
cries, and nothing at all can be SAID
of the interesting experimental and
practical work done with oysteH,
clans and mussels, Holsters and cras
turtles, terrapin and sponges, or Of
the study and treatment of the dis
eases OF fish, or of the many other
problems confronting those interest,"
ed in the Improvement Of the fish
cries. Enough has been said, how
ever, to show that fish culture is Of
no mean value in the making OF the
wealth.
There have been failures, many Of
them, but on the whole they have
been fewer than the successes. The
field still open is broad and attractive
Many problems are yet to be solved
and many successes yet to Do
not the least of which may
we'll be the demonstration TO the fM'
mer that his waste pond and ids
creek, his acre or two Of worthless
swamp, may at slight expense %
made to yield a value in food prod
ucts greater than from the same NUN.
Der of acres of his best titled ana
richest soil.-The Youths ComTaI'
ion.