| Show ON A GIGANTIC SCALE WORK DONE BY THE UNITED STATES FISH COM Alaska i is Said Paid For Herself Many Times Over Prom the Proceeds Pro-ceeds of the Seal Fisheries or I I I Washington June 4The work of the United States Fish commission during the past season has been enor I m ms Over JOOOOOOOO cod fry hatched at Gloucester and Woods Holl have I been planted at the fisheries on theN the-N w England coast and 200000000 shad collected in the Potomac Susquehanna Sus-quehanna and Delaware rivers were distributed along tire Atlantic coast from Massachusetts to Florida About 100000000 lobsters have been taken in iliine and Conecticunt These are be lag liberated by several vessels en gged in the work from the hatcheries on the Great Lakes 125000000 white fish fry and FO000000 lake trout fry have been pl anted The hatcheries at Quincy I III Nd sha JIo Manchester Ia i I Lerdvilie Coo and San Marcos Tex hae collected and distributed 3000000 Utjjfand about 100000 bass 1 a new station will be established at Ulr ck Hills S D and auxiliary sta titS are l contemplation in the < lackamas Rogue and Salmon rivers in Oregon on Puget Sound and the Lulf AVhite Salmon river in Wash in ton and op the McCIoud Battle C < ek and Trinity in California The v k of planting Pacific salmon which h1 1 i year reached an aggregate of 37 aggregte UnOW will be continued next fall h salmon industry on the Pacific C tat is of vast importance hut is as I lie not extensive on the Atlantic Over fi9 per cent of the vvnik of the conmision is devoted to commercial fir embracing the cod shad whitefish I white-fish pollock mackerel tawtog polocle r wtoS scup 32 bass lake Si trout salmon trout and I loisters I 11 the northwest an interesting work hia4 been mapped out for this summer I all fall under the direction of Dr Sr ith of the scientific bureau The I std of he conditions in the Colom bia bass with especial attention to the h logcal features will hE continued thE years ago it was found that the smon did not run in the Upper Co lu iba as formerly nor ln Ti its tribu t q al Cb I u u q u I txis were made to ascertain whether 1 this was cue to obstructions in then the-n r hut no impediments were found tn had not always existed The I fe lure of the salmon in the Upper Co lunbii it was concluded was due tote i to-te multipliiiion of fishing apparatus < till Locr Columbia and the enor I II > us < auh Th year some imorest U I j < r fioiojricil j int stiptuions mil be I i adt at Wala Walla lake in north stern unsoij I aiul other series of PI i MSKeamiT 01 the chain of lakes 1 grirnif V i CPIer Klamath and f ing st < ard thiough entral i gn inriuiiig Pumnif Allieit and f h Ie l TIPSC vCterC have never I en iiv > i gJd ani it i < nt knov l v h it fish th < j mtcin It i > > Ielieved It I be only a rji > tn ot in lien tey v il j he e vpry vau ble as I i i s < urr > f of f > o i tuppiy ail tio prcs t c it mqatM art to dfensne that j s jecies the waters can be stocked j I I The TnitP1 States fisli eniirIesim 1 v siel Aibalrops which has been in1 J 11 jear pngiHI l n patroltig BiiinT fa in the investigation of the far fa-r OkrT S wiii 1 iii y1 do k iurnate jfsh I commission tork Sh wit be < iUPd Tl gE U t > somhea tt m Aias 1 i i i to investigate the conditions on the j s Ilmn ST ins < > id i die t systematic fa wy of hoEr 1 vat fI Va t quantU lie of srlnn are being taken from i thi so stixdns iY tH tiifrnien and j ITCC ariecvaio if Tn for the rot i ro-t cfinn of these iisherii is son en I nctpd ths II i p criauted One of I ite onje tS < f he exfxltion is to I uJi I heJ c ntiitione tvth a view to paling ie < > mm < ndailons to con L es = l esThe The prools from the Alas a catch I jione every three years aggregate iu i iiiount tat paid fer that trriory j to I l the Russian government Aaska has it Is said paid for herself mal times I i rer from the proceeds of the seal lisheries In addition to this general work Dr C hares N iiert of Inland Stanford j laiveisily a wellknown ichthylcolo i Ct under fett the eirprtion cf Mrmis eoner Bird is engaged in the study of fish life from the Golden Gate to 1 the Columbia I |
