152 American Fisheries Society 



The Department of Fisheries is very much in earnest 

 in its efforts to bring about the clarification of the 

 streams, because its success in restocking the streams 

 and waters depends almost entirely upon the ability of 

 those waters to sustain fish life, not destroy it. 



In order to interest the growing generation in the 

 protection and preservation of fish life the Department 

 has had prepared a Bronze Cabinent, known as "Bulle- 

 tin Number 9," in which it has placed a number of vials 

 containing some phases of the growth of the fish from 

 the time it is in the embryo in the egg until it has started 

 in the race for life. The specimens are taken, in one case 

 from the trout as the representative of the game fishes 

 of the Commonwealth, and in the other instance from 

 the white fish as the representative of the commercial 

 fish. 



There is nothing more important in the eye of the 

 Department than the enlisting of the rising generation 

 as the friends of the fish. If the boys and girls of the 

 Commonwealth can be shown how the fish lives, its habits, 

 its instincts, and all the various phases of its life, they 

 will become interested and incited by the interest, will 

 be impelled to follow the study as they grow older. The 

 more thoroughly they acquire an interest in the mysteries 

 of the lives of the dwellers in the water, the more they 

 will become convinced that the requirements of the laws 

 which have been enacted to safeguard the fish are neces- 

 sary for its protection in these days of constant growth 

 in population. Describing the cabinet, a bulletin has 

 been issued which tells of the characteristics, of the fish, 

 where they differ, and of the growth from the embryo 

 to maturity. 



To the person who knows nothing of its life and habits, 

 the fish represents only so much of a portion of man's 

 food. But to one who studies the life of the fish and its 

 habits, there is opened a volume as interesting as any 

 upon the book shelves of the library. 



The Department has had prepared a bulletin which 

 treats of the capabilities of an acre of water in raising 



