Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1910-08-25
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waters, that does not come within the purview
of the bureau.
! 1t is conceived to be the better policy to ex-
pend small amount of public money Ia ma
king fish so abundant that they can be caught
without restriction and serve as 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 improvdence.
Public or government fish-culture In Amert-
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 inhabi-
ting interstate and international waters has
not only negatived the f1sh-cultural work Of the
bureau and of the states themselves, but has
practically inhibited 1t by preventing the pos
!sibility Of securing an adequate supply Of eggs
thus making desirable and necessary the pla-
cling Of interstate and international waters un-
der the jurisdiction Of the general government
! At the end of the frss 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 ad-
Idition to which the propagation of several 9TH
lers 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.
Iportant commercial hshes-shad, whitefsh,
lake trout, Pacific salmons, white perch, yell
low perch, cod, fiatfsh and the lobster which
Iare 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
of the output of the hatcheries, this feature
of the work is very important, for 1t supplies
lchoce kinds of fish for public rivers, lakes and
lponds, and for fishing preserves and private
lponds and streams in all parts of the United
Estates. The fishes most In demand for these
purposes are the land-locked salmon, the diff
lferent species of trout, the grayling the basses
the crappies the sunashes, and the catfshes
but various others also are handled
Fish-cultural stations are established by
special act of congress, and their location and
construction are determined after a careful
survey of the available sites In a given state
The usual buildings are the hatchery proper
residence for the superintendent and his fam
lily, and necessary outbuildings. At some sta
tons there may also be power house. foreman's
or fsh-culturist's dwelling mess hall and sta
BILE.
The only permanent marine hatcheries are
in Maine and Massachusetts, where the cod
pollock, fatfsh, and Holsters are Matched in
Immense numbers. Other sea fishes that have
In previous years been artifcially propagated
and may again come under the hand Of the
fish-culturist are the paddock, 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