BULLETIN 



OF THE 



UNITED STATES FISH COMMISSION. 



1882 . 



STOCKING THE STETTINER IEAFF WITH CARP' 



[From the Magdeburgische Zeitung, No. 501, Magdeburg, October 27, 1881.] 



A truly gigantic enterprise which will greatly increase our sources of 

 national wealth, if successful, is at present agitated by the well known 

 pisciculturist, M. von dem Borne, of Berneuchen, viz, the stocking of 

 all the waters belonging to the mouths of the Oder, i. e., the Stettiner 

 Haff, the Papenwasser, and the Darnmsche See, with the highest es- 

 teemed German food-fish, the carp. This large expanse of water, ex- 

 tending far to the east and west of the usual steamboat route, is only 

 partially know to the visitors of our Baltic watering-places ; it embraces 

 an area of 87,000 hectares, or more than 15i German square iniles= 

 about 214,985 (English) acres. If every hectare of water is on an 

 average stocked with 250 carp it would require the enormous number 

 of nearly 22,500,000 of carp, which, placed in these waters when young, 

 would after three years be fit for the market, and would — even if dur- 

 ing that period many of them should have been destroyed — furnish 

 ample food to a vast number of our population. 



No one will deny that this is a grand idea, and the only question was 

 for Mr. von dem Borne to furnish the proof of its practicability. Mr. 

 von dem Borne has done this in the presence of a specially invited com- 

 pany of representatives of the authorities most interested in this matter, 

 by laying his plan before them on the occasion of large pond-carp fish- 

 eries near his estate of Berneuchen. The result was such as to remove 

 all doubt from the minds of those present as to the feasibility of Mr. 

 von dem Borne's plan for increasing the productiveness of large sheets 

 of fresh water. It may therefore interest our readers if we lay before 

 them an outline of this plan. 



The main question is, whether it is possible to produce about 22 mil- 

 lions of young carp in four years and place them in the Stettiner Haff. 

 As pisciculture has reached a high degree of development in our coun- 



"Die Besetzung des Stettiner Half's mit Karpfen."— Translated by Herman Jacob- 

 sox. 



Bull. U. S. F. C. 5 82 1 Ang . £t, 1882, 



