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CHAPTER XXXII. 



STURGEON. 



This valuable food fish is in danger of extermination 

 by being caught in the spawning season for its partly 

 ripe eggs, which, owing to the demand for them when 

 made into caviare, are worth more than the great fish 

 itself. I am unfashionable enough to like sturgeon and 

 to loathe caviare; if there was a stronger word than 

 loathe it would be used here. 



Once the Hudson River swarmed with this fish, and 

 "Albany beef" was the common name of its flesh. Now 

 they are practically gone from the river and the caviare 

 hunters have gone to Lake of the Woods, north of 

 Minnesota, for the lake sturgeon, for there are two 

 species. 



The sturgeon spawns in early summer, has heavy, 

 adhesive eggs, measuring nine to the inch, which hatch 

 in six to seven days. The eggs are difficult to take and 

 in some cases the fish of both sexes have had to be 

 ripped open, even when ripe. 



CHAPTER XXXIII. 

 YELLOW PERCH (Perca flavescens). 



This common pond and river fish is so near the 

 European perch that the fish sharps have disputed over 



