Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1914-02-20
$1,000 SMALL FRY PLANTED.
Ninety Six Per Cent. of 100000 Eggs
Hatched at State Fish Hatch
cry at Hay Spur This Season.

(Hailey News Miner.)
o o @ @ o o 9 9 Q @ 9 9 o 9 @ 9 o
9 General superintendent of 9
9 state fish hatcheries, George H. o
@ Isaacs, came up on Sundays @
@ northbound train from the o
9 hatchery at Hay Spur bringing Q
. with him $4,000 small fry of Q
9 eastern brook trout variety to @
9 be planted in the streams near o
. this city. They were received Q
8 by Hobert c. Beamer, who with @
9 Ed Flemming and son George, @
9 took part of them to a point g
@ near the mouth of Croy creek 9
o where they liberated $4,000 of 9
9 the small finny tribe. This is g
. an ideal spot for young fish. the 9
9 water being warm and filed Q
. with water cress and moss. @
8 The remainder. or $4,000, were Q
o taken up Deer creek. 9
o o o o o o 9 9 o 8 o o o . 8 o 9.
Mr.. Esaacs said Sunday to a NEWS
MINER reporter that the ehieflOss in
raising hsh occurred just after they
were Matched and when the sack still
aGheres to them. At this stage of their
life they all seek one spot or point in
the breeding trough and there pile up
until they are two or three inches deep,
which causes the ones on the bottom
to smother or sufficate. This is a very
hard proposition to handle and no
matter how careful and attentive a
person may be, they will pile up and
cause a considerable loss.
A few years ago Mr.. Isaacs succeed
ed in Matching 81 per cent out of 215,-
goo eggs at the hatchery at Hay Spur
and raised nearly all of them This
year he Matched SO per cent out Of
1922, 600 spawn, and is having remark
ably good success with them, and as
they are now ready to plant the dan
ger of loss is practically past.
Considering the fact that a few
years ago when he Matched the 81 per
cent the capacity of the hatchery was
taxed heavily, this year it would have
been impossible to handle the stock on
hand under the same methods used
formerly, but Mr.. Isaacs devised a
plan whereby the output could be
greatly increased at a very small ex-
pense. He found out that by making
small screen pans and putting the
young fish in them until they had
passed the danger point of suffocation,
he could handle many times the for
rner output of the hatchery.
Consequently he has made screen
pans Is inches long, u inches wide
and inches deep, or very fine screen
wire, and by the use of these he has
reduced the loss to a minimum. He is
now able to raise a larger per cent. of
the fish Matched, which are better and
stronger fry than those raised under
former methods. He stated that one
should not content himself with rails
ing a large per cent, but should look
to the quality of the fish. Fish are
like everything else in their infancy
in order to become large, strong and
vigorous they must have the proper
nursing. They must be kept strong
and growing from the very first.
Mr.. Isaacs has now had nearly thlr-
teen years experience in this line OF
work and has arrived at a stage where
he can put into operation ideas which
can only come to those with many
years of practical work. He has hopes
of making the hatchery at Hay Spur
the largest in the state; in fact, one OF
the largest in the west.
At present he is not in a position to
state what improvements he thinks
are likely to be made or what should
be made. He has now worked under
four governors and at no time since he
entered the employ of the state has he
asked for the job. The government
has recognized in him a man who IN
stands the business and consequently
has kept him. He thinks that the fish
department should be put under the
civil service rules and that it should
be taken cut of politics entirely. For
instance. he cites that when new
eo,rernor takes charge of the states