BtJLLETIft OF THE DNITED STATES FISH commission. :;;■!» 



133 — PUTTING It ASM IIVTO CARP l»OI\l>H. 

 By MAX VOX DEM BOKNF. 



[From a letter to Col. >i. McDonald.] 



I am much delighted that the large carp ponds of Peitz were of in- 

 terest to yon, and I am convinced that fish ponds for carp, trout, and 

 other fish would pay very well in America if they could be drained en- 

 tirely. The last is the great secret of fish-breeding in ponds. 



I am convinced that you are perfectly right that black bass will In- 

 valuable for carp ponds. Will it not be the same in all pike waters. 

 where coarse fish are plentiful, and neither salmon nor trout are to be 

 found? Von Behr is much afraid of the bass, but I think he is mistaken, 

 because more than nine tenths of all our waters in Northern Germany 

 are only pike and coarse fish waters.* 



Berneuchen, Germany, September 7, 1884. 



124 E0IBI.E QUALITIES OF S9IOKEO KINGFISH (SCOITIBFRO- 



iVIORITS CAVALLA, Cuv.)t 



By Capt. J. W. COLLINS. 



All who have tasted it in my presence have conceded that the king- 

 fish, as an article of smoked food, is as good or better than halibut pre- 

 pared in the same manner. Some have compared the kingfish to sal- 

 mon, while the majority think it excels halibut, because it is free from 

 the rather rank taste that the latter has. 



Captain Martin distributed some of the kingfish. among the members 

 of a club at East Gloucester, giving each a taste. He tells me that it 

 met with great favor, the consensus of opinion being that it is superior 

 to halibut as an article of smoked food. 



We are under obligations to Messrs. William H. Wonson and Son for 

 their kindness and courtesy in smoking the kingfish, free of charge, as 

 well as for the extraordinary pains they have taken to cure it in the 

 best possible manner. 



Gloucester, Mass., May 9, 1885. 



*Iliave suggested the introduction of black bass into ponds with tlncr or fonr 

 year obi carp, with the view of keeping down the minnows which multiply in such 

 ponds and take away the food of the carp.— NIcD. 



tTbe following opinion was received by the Commissioner from Hon. William C. 

 Endicott, Secretary of War, May 12, 1885 : 



"I have tried it twice. It is very palatable, and I should think ii a good fish for 

 commerce. It is not so good as the smoked halibul or the 1-st of I : ">' 



much better than alewives. I have thought that our people do not eal smoked fish 

 as much as formerly." 



