Show WORK OF THE FISH COH3IISSION An Important SUipmcut of Shad for Western ISivcrs CHICAGO June 30ne of the cars of the United States Fish Commission passed through Chicago last night on its way to Portland Oregon The car was in charge of Commissioner Moore who said This is one of if not the most important shipments ever made by the Fish Commission I Commis-sion Shad have been successfully introduced intro-duced in the Sacramento river and its tributaries trib-utaries but we never yet tried to introduce them in Oregon and that is where this load goes I have altogether about half a million shad in the car and I think we shall be able to make the long journey successfully I intend to try and make the Pacific Coast give us something in return and will endeavor en-deavor to bring back with me some Pacific Coast clams which I will take to AVoodsholl station in Massachusetts and put them under the care of Professor Baird In talking of the general work done by tho Fish Commission jMr Moore said the effort to introduce some of the best kinds of English En-glish fish into American waters had been so far successful with the turbot and sole which had been put down at Sandy Hook and had bred and part of their progeny I been caught Scotch trout had also done well Herring had been very successful but the flavor of the fish caught on this side seemed to have somewhat deteriorated I Perhaps the most profitable of all imported fish were the German carp which were doing well in every Stats in the Union and would I soon bo very plentiful in the markets California Cali-fornia trout have been introduced throughout through-out Georgia Alalyirna Tennessee and Virginia Vir-ginia In the great lakes the Commission had put down about fifty millions of whitefish white-fish |