Show Fiali and Fisheries WASHINGTON March 21 During the past winter which was an unusually severe one at sea the Fish Commission succeeded in hatching 35000000 cod eggs bringing the young up by hand so to speak to the age to selffeeding adolesdence and turning them loose into the ocean Thisorop will ripen four and five years hence Among the tasks which the Commission has set for itself to bffundertaken immediately is that of attempting at-tempting to repeople our coastal waters with halibut Despite the theory of some eminent scientists that mankind cannot control the appreciable decrease in the food supply of the ocean the supply of these valuable val-uable food fish has depleted in waters where it was once common and such as remain lurk in depths of from 150 to 400 fathoms They may be taken with hook and lino but difficulty is experienced in bringing them from such a depth with enough of vitality remaining to make them serviceable to the commission The task will require time and careful experimentation encouragement encourage-ment however is found in the fact that a single venturesome individual of the species has recently been taken in the lower Potomac Poto-mac the first instance of the kind known to the commission with its stomach full of fresh water fish upon which it was to all appearance ap-pearance thriving The attempt will probably prob-ably be made to plant halibut in the Chesapeake Chesa-peake Bay The Fish Commission people have radical notions respe tin the fisheries trouble with Canada and speak in no gentle terms of the efforts of our neighbors to so harrass our fisherman as to force a way for their own products into our markets which it is declared is the impelling motive in all their latter operations |