J. PISCICULTURE AND THE FISHEEIES. 463 



Alleghany River, a genuine shad, presumed to be the progeny 

 of the stock deposited by Mr. Green in the Alleghany River 

 at Salamanca in July of 1872, in behalf of the United States, 

 and at the instance of the United States Commissioner of 

 Fish and Fisheries. The fish is said to have been thirteen 

 and a half inches long, and well developed, representing a 

 little more than one year's growth of this kind offish. 



It is suggested by the editor that this fish had probably 

 been down to the sea, and had returned. This, however, if 

 true, would express a somewhat different habit from that 

 which has been su2)posed to characterize the shad namely, 

 that they spend at least two years in the salt-water before 

 coming back to the place of birth, or where they were de- 

 posited in the water. 



If there is no mistake in regard to the identification of this 

 specimen as the true shad, we have here a very important 

 argument in favor of the propriety of continuing the attempt 

 to introduce shad into Western rivers. The experiment in 

 the Alleghany River was considered somewhat doubtful in 

 view of the fact that the fish in movinsc to the sea would 

 necessarily pass through a long extent of water poisoned by 

 petroleum, and unsuited to the respiration of fishes. HocJies- 

 ter Daily JJnion^ September 10, 1873. 



SECOND ANNUAL MEETING OF THE AMERICAN FISH-CULTUR- 



ISTS' ASSOCIATION. 



The report of the second annual meeting of the American 

 Fish-culturists' Association has just been published in Albany, 

 and contains a notice of the meeting held in New York on 

 the 11th of February, 1873. On this occasion numerous top- 

 ics connected with fish-culture were brought forward, and a 

 committee was appointed to memoralize Congress, asking for 

 an appropriation of $30,000 for the promotion of the culture 

 of food fishes. 



Among the papers presented was the president's address, 

 containing a summary of what was done in fish-culture in 

 1872, recounting the measures taken by the National Com- 

 missioner and the State Commissioners for the introduction 

 and increase of the salmon, shad, and other species. In a pa- 

 per, by Professor Mather, on artificial spawning as practiced 

 in the cultivation of trout, the opinion w^as expressed that, 



