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one about to transport live fish on such a long and 

 perilous journey, as he had undertaken to transport fish 

 from the Atlantic to the Pacific coast." The above I 

 wrote for "Rod and Gun," and it appeared in its issue 

 of February 26, 1876. 



In 1874, with Mr. A. A. Anderson as an assistant, 

 I tried to get 100,000 shad fry from Holyoke, Mass., to 

 Germany, and failed. An account of this will be found 

 in the chapter on "Shad." 



CHAPTER XII. 



TRANSPORTING ADULT FISH. 



The main things in taking live fish on railway or 

 other journeys have been explained. We get oxygen 

 from air, and fish get the same thing from water. A 

 submarine diver can stay down long if air is pumped 

 to him ; if it stops, he dies from the carbonic acid gas 

 which his own lungs throw off. The case is the same 

 with the fish. They are shut in a can where no oxygen 

 can reach them except what comes to the water through 

 its sloshing about in the motion of the car, if the cover 

 is left off, or such as you may give them by syringe, 

 air pump or other mode of aeration (see chapter on 

 "Transporting Trout Fry"). 



The next important point is temperature. If the fish 

 are taken from icy water, or from spring water in win- 

 ter, you may ice them heavily; but if you are taking 

 fish from a pond in summer, say black bass or perch, 



