The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-09-02
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waters, that does not come within the purview
Of the bureau.
It 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 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 improvidence.
Public or government fsh-culture in Ameri-
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 fishcultural 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 I'M
der the jurisdiction of the general government.
At the end of the firse ten years of the bu-
reaus existence, the fishes that were being
regularly cultivated were shad, carp, chinook
salmon, Atlantic salmon landlocked salmon,
rainbow trout brook trout and whitefish, in ad-
dit1on to which the propagation of several 9TH
ers had been undertaken experimentally The
list is six times 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 ishes-shad whitefsh,
lake trout, Pacific salmons, white perch yell
low perch, cod, flatfsh 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
of the output of the hatcheries, this feature
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 basses,
the crappies, the sunfishes, and the catfishes,
but various others also are handled.
Fish-cultural stations are established by
special act of congress, and their location and
construction are determined after 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
tions there may also be power house. foreman's
or f1sh-culturist's dwelling mess hall and sta
BILE.
The only permanent marine hatcheries are
in Maine and Massachusetts, where the cod,
pollock, fatf1sh, 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
fsh-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 tishcultural work on the eastern coast