Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1911-08-19

~ @VN AS Sdif MAKE rafnD0W trout
feel at home in the Colorado Desert:
but he hopes TO work that out in the
next year orftwo. And he knows ex.
actly where he strawberry bass the
steelhead TROUT, and tn buffalo fish viii
ooatr butte most to the JOY OF the ane-
Ter. He hat reports. charts AMI print-
/ ed documents 10 show You how his
cistributica of the salmon, the mack
erel, and the cod has added to the
wealth a the United States. His iob
Is a Nnhle~baweled affair, as he has
TO stock the public waters and also
4 has to meet the demands OF private
owners who want their lakes and
streams fairly alive with those vari.
cites which bite best and AFFORD the
greatest sport.
4 During the last fiscal year the Blu
Tean of Fisheries received and met ap-
proximately eleven thousand requests
/ for the stocking Of streams. lakes, and
/ punds with fish OF various kinds. This
means that Mr. Bowers has reorganiz-
cd and perfected the working machia-
cry of the bureau so that II does for
| the fishing industry what the Depart-
nent Of Agriculture does for the
| plants of the country. The bureau,
| first OF all, keeps the supply OF fish up
20 the mark of all waters: but. I'm adj
dition TO this, II learns by experiments
| and investigations whether fish in
disenous TO the Atlantic seaboard can
be planted and made 10 multiply ON
the Pacific Coast, whether the trout
OF California will live and prosper in
the streams of the Alleghenies and
whether, by peculiar treatment. fish
found in warm waters can be trans
ported TO colder waters. and vice YER
So.
The Human Hook, seated AT his
desk in Washington, operates the
meshes OF the countrywide seine that
rerlenishes i1terchan~es, and accli-
ma ties all species Of fish. He has
under h'rn at this time thdrty-fve pro-
oagating stations and eighty-slx field
srd collection stations. These cover
en- area of thirty-two states. Last
year he presented to foreign countries
six hundred thousand eggs. They
vent to France, japan, ard Argentine,
which countries were anx Gus to Inn
,rove and replenish their fish supplies.
in the same year he scattered In the
waters of the Uaited States three and
cne-quarter thousand millions of young
fish and fish eggs. When II is remem-
bered that the total value OF the fish
| landed at Boston and Gloucester by
American fishing vessels in one year
reaches as high as $4,616,444 1t can
be realized that this Human Hook per-
son has a large part to play in the
commercial development OF the coun-
| try.
| One of the oldest things IN the SER
vice he has developed is his fashion
OF having young fish carried for any
distance he chooses across the coua-
try. Securing an appropriation from
Congress for the purpose, he bought
six Pullman palace cars and trans
formed them into fish cars. The lower
berths of the cars are used for tanks.
and the uppers are the sleeping quar-
ters of the men in charge OF the finny
| tribes. In one end OF each car Is an
engine that aerates the water in the
4 tanks; for, all beliefs to the contrary
Notwithstanding, fish have to have air
as well as human beings. For instance
when Bowers concluded that the Cali
forlia trout could be fixture in some
of the mountain streams along the At
| go to California, catch carload OF
trout, and haul them back across the
continent The instructions we're car
ried out, and the rainbow boys are
now disporting themselves in some Of
the streams in the Alleghenies.
II should be mentioned that, while
II cost the Government in 1898 1922 90
to propagate one million fish and
eggs, it now costs, under the Human
Hooks management, only $146.36.
But there is one thing that dIms the
happiness OF Mr.. Bowers. He may
smile as he reflects on the multiplied
ton of blackspotted trout in Yellow
stone Park; he may pat himself on the
back as he considers the rescue Of fish
4 from over1owed lands in the upper
valley Of the Miss ssippi; he may grin
with pride in recollecfing the cement
Matching troughs at Bozeman, Mon
tana; and he may laugh with glee over
| the reports Of how merrily the chinook
salmon has taken to the W alters of
Lake Sunapee.-he may do all these
things, only 10 feel cast dowa when
his thoughts rest on the fish that are
| invaI DIS. For Bowers is not only a
! fish fcoler; he is fish physician. Fish
do get sick They have headache, and
they flop over suddenly on their backs
and kick the bucket-or the water.
And Bowrs wants TO prevent epidem-
les and contagious outbreaks in the
| family So far it has been secret to
| the uninitiated. But here IL goes--fish
have tumors and cancers! ANA this
l ic what bowers reDOrts on the sub