lUJLLETIN OF THE UNITED STATES FISH COMMISSION. 119 



off ia one contimious act, any game,/er«? 7iaturcc, on the land of B, the 

 dead yanie is the absolute projierty of B, ratione soli. 



That the same doctrine is applicable to fish caught and taken from 

 the waters of the owner cannot be questioned ; and the cases referred 

 to by the judges in the discussion of the cases above cited mention fish 

 as of the same character as animals and birds. 



Your committee, therefore, being of opinion that the navigable waters 

 within each State belong to it, subject to the paramount right of navi- 

 gation, for the benefit of its own i^eople, it has the right to secure the 

 exclusive right of fishing in them to its own citizens by virtue of their 

 common property in said waters, and that the citizens of other States 

 have no constitutional right, nor can Congress confer any, to partici- 

 pate in fishing in them. 



Your committee recommend that the bill referred do lie on the table, 

 and the prayer of the petitioners be denied. All of which is respect- 

 fully submitted. 



43.-0BSERVAT101VS OIV SAIilTION IN OERMAN RIVERS.* 



By Prof. B. BEIVECKE. 



We know but little about the salmon while ascending the different 

 rivers, although this knowledge is of the greatest importance for the 

 salmon fisheries and for the fixing of a rational season of protection. 

 If we except the exceedingly valuable observations on the migration of 

 the Pthine salmon by Miescher-Euesch, no systematic investigation of 

 this subject has anywhere been made. It is particularly astonishing that 

 even in England, in spite of the great interest which the English take in 

 the salmon fisheries, and in spite of the fact that there is a sjiecial in- 

 spector of salmon fisheries, and suiierintendents for every salmon stream, 

 no one seems ever to have thought of subjecting this matter to scien- 

 tific investigation. 



Eegular and exact observations have been made recently in the rivers 

 Kiiddow and Kheda, which are small salmon streams of Germany, in 

 which the circumstances are specially favorable. 



The Kuddow is a rapid and clear trout stream, which rises from the 

 Vilm and Dolgen lakes near Keustettin, flows from north to south in 

 many meanderings and with a strong current, and finally empties near 

 Uscz into the ISTetze, a well-known tributary of the Oder. In its mid- 

 dle course the Kiiddow has numerous spawning places of salmon ; and 

 since the reckless fishing which was formerly going on at its mouth, 

 near Uscz, and above, near fechneidemiihl, has been checked, salmon 

 ascend the Kiiddow regularly for the purj)ose of spawning. Our ob- 



' "Beobachtungen iiber den Aufstieg des Lachses in den FlUssen." From Circular No. 

 1, 1886, of the German Fishery, Association, Berlin, March 4, 1886. Translated from 

 the German by Herman Jacobson. 



