268 AMERICAN FISH CULTURE. 



spawners a large number of ova will be taken, and trans- 

 ferred to the beds at Charlestown to be hatched ; but as 

 bass hatching has not yet been reduced to a science like 

 trout and salmon hatching, no such results are expected as 

 have been obtained with these latter named fish. The 

 hatching-beds for the bass are built on the lower stream 

 of the Cold Spring Ponds, the other being too cold in the 

 summer to answer the purpose. 



There is still another branch of this fish-breeding estab- 

 lishment, and without doubt the most important one, viz. j 

 the salmon breeding ponds on the Miramichi river in New 

 Brunswick. Here a salmon fishery has been secured, and 

 everything put under way, for carrying on large salmon- 

 breeding works, on the same principle but on a larger scale 

 as the trout-breeding ponds at Charlestown. A large 

 quantity of salmon ova and young salmon will be taken 

 here this fall, and it is hoped that those who are interested 

 in restocking the American rivers with salmon, will not be 

 slow to avail themselves of this opportunity of obtaining 

 the ova or young fish. 



It is very gratifying to see the daily increasing interest 

 in the community, in having our barren and profitless 

 streams and ponds replenished with fish. People seem to 

 be waking up to a sense of the value of water, as a food- 

 producing agent, and all are beginning to understand, that 

 in our lakes and rivers are to be found a source of revenue, 

 too promising to be neglected. Indeed a fish-raising fever 



saw numerous fry of this season near the margin of the pond. These 

 young fish were not less than an inch long on the 12th of June, and 

 consequently must have come from spawn deposited the latter part 

 of April or in May. I do not mention this fact in opposition to the 

 above remark, that bass spawn in June in New Hampshire ; a few 

 degrees of latitude will make a great difference in the time of fish 

 that spawn in the spring or early summer. T. N. 



