Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-09-13

fish SOLE Off our coasts, but they are as
yet unknown to the American consumer
"A fish we have been investigating of
late is the dogash, really a small shark.
that is pest on the New England and
middle Atlantic coasts. It does great
damage to fishing apparatus and to food
fish caught on lines and in nets. In
consequence, Congress has been asked at
various times to leg slate for its ex erm1-
nation to put a bounty on its de truction,
and one proposal was for the government
to establish fertilizer works to make fer-
tilizer out Of dogash and sell 1t to the
farmers at cost.
impracticab-e. A better way to treat the
fish is to convert It from nuisance into
an economically useful product. Just pc
= cause it is called dogish and Is Known TO
be a small shark, an unJusunaoie preJu-
dee exists against 1t as food. 1t is re-
garded as a very fair food FISH abroad.
/ have eaten 1t and found 1t palataole,
wholesome and nutritious.
Seven and one-half million pounds OF
it are consumed annually in England.
where it commands prices several times
greater than the fishermen could obtain
for 1t at any fertilizer works For merry
the same prejudice existed in Ensianu
against the fish that exists here, put
have It removed in this country.
.'Transp.anting food fish from one part
of the country to another constitutes one
of the large activities of the pu.eau.
to introduce the shad and the stripso PEG
bass on the Pacific coast. Inese ivy
leading river fishes of the ATLANTIC ccas'
have been firmly established IN tne
cihc states and now can De cau7n. ,ha;r
in even larger quantities than IN une az
original waters. Thus. at an expense o.
a few thousand dollars, we have gwen ~ ~
the Pacific seal GARD fishermen a IA Cn
which they haze received over $1,000
The eastern oyster also mas p.o's,
Now we are engaged in a vigorous at
ternpt to establish the eastern lopstei oi
the Pacific seaboard. The only SUBS lieu.e
for the lobster on the west coas. 20 a.
large saltwater crayfish, fouho on.S ~
California. The lobster Is sui.auae nh;s
year we viii ship one or two carioaas u
Holsters to Puget sound and VIII cohceh
trate the efforts to co.onize the 'tans
planted lobster there 1 feel sure that the
effort will be successful.
From our fish cultural stations we
distribute widely game nsh ioi p0'~
streams, lakes and ponds, nshlhs pre-
serves, private ponds ana private si eN.s
This distribution. though conparat 'eis
small factor in the total output Is a very
important feature of the bureaus WORK.
Among the fishes most extensively pio
duced for these purposes are tne seSerai
species of trout, the grayiing' the oasses'
crapples, Dream and catfshes.
"Ninety-five per cent OF the output Oh
the fish cultural stations. however: con-
sists of the important commercial spe-
cies. notably the salmons, shad. white
fish. pike. perch, fellow perch. white
perch lake trout. cod. pollock. haddock.
hatfish and Holsters.
but in planting fish away from their
habitat we do not eonfne ourselves to
the native stock We have introduced
quite a number of the old world fish into
American waters Two European trouts.
the brown trout and the Scotch lake
trout have been cultivated here Tor