768 EEPOET OF COMMISSIONER OF FISH AND FISHERIES. 



To show how simple a matter it is to stock a river witli salmon, be 

 related the experieuce of himself aud others in placing" 12,001) young- 

 fish in the Delaware last year. He obtained the eggs of Mr. Wilraot, 

 and they were liept until the yelk-sac was absorbed, and then turned 

 into the small streams, where they were able to take care of themselves. 

 There was very little trouble in the operation, and no care of feeding 

 them was required. There are now 13,01)0 salmon in the Delaware. 



Mr. Seth Green related his practical experience as a fisherman and 

 dealer in fish.for many years on Lake Ontario. In thecourse of his opera- 

 tions, he had dressed tons of salmon, and never saw anything in them 

 that really amounted to anything. They were taken in a trap net in 

 the lake; and the trap-nets killed them all out of Lake Ontario in about 

 five years. They were set near the shore all along the lake. 



The first pound-net came from Scotland in about 1836. It was a cari- 

 ous contrivance, that took a great many salmon. After much effort, he 

 got an opportunity to go out to the net, the construction of which was 

 kept a secret, and assisted in taking out the fish, aud after working for 

 some weeks in that way he got the idea of the whole thing, and then went 

 into the business himself. After five years, only a few salmon were left, 

 aud these came into Wilmot Creek, aud another creek at Grafton. 



Mr. Reed. Are you satisfied that the Sacramento salmon ^yill rise to 

 the fly ? 



Mr. Green. Yes, I know they will ; when the right man goes with 

 the right kind of tools, he will get them fast enough. 



In answer to Mr. Howell, who inquired if salmon, in passing up the 

 Delaware would be likely to i>ass along the shores or in the channel, 

 as the question would have an important bearing on the Delaware River 

 fisheries, there being nets placed near the shore for a long distance, Mr. 

 Green said he thought they would keep the center of the stream. When 

 he spoke of salmon being a shore-fish, he meant to be understood as 

 saying that the ocean-salmon pass along the shore. 



Mr. NoRRis. In the tidal waters of the Delaware, would they follow 

 the channel or shore ? 



Mr. Green. Both. 



Mr. Pike said that having some curiosity to investigate the question 

 of the similarity of the salmon from Mr. Wilmot's stream and those of 

 the Penobscot, he had three of each sent him last winter. He exam- 

 ined them carefully, and they were examined by others, and no one 

 could see any difference. There was more real difference between those 

 that came from the Penobscot than between them aud the Wilmot 

 stream salmon. That was the only way to test the question, to bring 

 them side by side. 



In regard to the expense of hatching salmon, he said his apparatus 

 cost him only $3, and he hatched out a thousand without the slightest 

 difficulty. He lost about three hundred. The water used came through 

 lead-pipe, being that used in the city. 



