The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1910-09-08
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waters, that does not come within the puryiew
of the bureau.
1t is conceived to be the better policy to ex-
pend a small amount of public money in ma
king fish so abundant that they can be caught
without restriction and serve cheap food for
the people at large, rather than to expend
much larger sum in preventing people from
catching the few fish that still remain after
generations of improvidence.
Public or government fsh-culture in Amer1-
ca exceeds in extent and Importance that of
all other countries combined. However, the
neglect of some of the states to provide the
minimum protection to certain species nhabi
ting interstate and international waters has
not only negatived the fishcultural work of the
bureau and of the states themselves, but has
practically inhibited it by preventing the pos
sibility of securing adequate supply of eggs
thus making desirable and necessary the pla-
cling of interstate and international waters I'M
der the jurisdiction of the general government
At the end of the firse ten years of the bu-
reau's existence, the fishes that were being
regularly cultivated were shad, carp, chinook
salmon, Atlantic salmon land-locked salmon,
rainbow trout, brook trout and whitefish, in adj
dition to which the propagation of several 9TH
ers had been undertaken experimentally. The
list now is six times as long and the annual
output is ten times the aggregate for the ten
year period ending in 1881.
The main energies are devoted to the i'm
portant commercial fishes-shad whitefsh,
lake trout, Pacific salmons, white perch, yell
low perch, cod, fiatfsh and the lobster, which
are Matched in lots of many millions annually
More widely popular, however, are the distri
buttons of the fishes of the interior waters
which are generally classed as game fishes AL
though representing only about 10 per cent
0f nj he hat
of the work is very important, for it supplies
choice kinds of fish for public rivers, lakes and
ponds, and for fishing preserves and private
ponds and streams in all parts of the United
States. The fishes most In demand for these
purposes are the land-locked salmon. the diff
ferent species of trout. the grayling the BASES,
the crappies, the sunfishes, and the catishes,
but various others also are handled
Fish-cultural stations are established by
special act of congress-, and their location and
construction determined after a careful
survey of the available sites in given state.
The usual buildings are the hatchery proper
residence for the superintendent and his fam
lily, and necessary Outbuildings At some sta
lions there may also be power house, foreman's
or fsh-culturist's dwelling, mess hall and sta
ble
The only permanent marine hatcheries are
in Maine and Massachusetts, where the cod,
pollock, fatfish, and Holsters are Matched in
immense numbers. Other sea fishes that have
In previous years been artiicially propagated
and may again come under the hand of the
fish-culturist are the haddock the scuppaug.
the sheepshead, the sea bass, the mackerel, and
the squeteague, some of which were Matched
on the steamer Fish Hawk, in Chesapeake bay
and Florida
The fsh-cultural work on the eastern coast