amia — dogfish; bowfins 41 



pike, living for hours on the hook. They can be kept "in a rain 

 barrel all summer without change of water." 



The hardiness of this fish and its willing endurance < if conditii ms 

 fatal to most species give it a predominance in our waters, which, 

 combined with its numbers, activity, voracity, ami wide range of 

 food, make it, on the whole, a dangerous ami destructive enemy to 

 our fisheries. The time will doubtless come when thoroughgoing 

 measures will lie taken to keep down to the lowest practicable limit 

 the dogfish and the gars — as useless and destructive in our produc- 

 tive waters as wolves and foxes formerly were in our pastures 

 and poultry-yards. 



