A METHOD OF FISH CULTURE AND OF 

 TRANSPORTING LIVE FISHES.* 



By A. D. MEAD, Ph. D. 



Member of the Rhode Island Commission of Inland Fisheries. 



Presented before the Fourth International Fishery Congress, Washington, 1908, 



AND AWARDED THE PrIZE OF TwO HuNDRED DoLLARS IN GoLD OFFERED BY THE UnITED 



States Bureau of Fisheries for a Report describing the most Useful, New and 

 Original Principle, Method, or Apparatus to be employed in Fish Culture or 

 in Transporting Live Fishes. 



CONTENTS. 



Essential principles and development of the method 81 



Adaptation to fishes and other pelagic forms 83 



Requirements 8.3 



Requirements satisfied 85 



Adaptability of the method 87 



Apparatus 88 



General description 88 



Details of structure 90 



Possibility of variation 95 



Precautions 95 



Tests of efficiency 96 



General application of the method in fish culture 104 



Application in transportation of live fishes 105 



♦Reprinted by permission of the Secretary General of the Fourth International Fishery 

 Congress. 



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