SOME FISH AND SOME FISHING 



told that at the end of the XVIII Century 

 the fishermen on the Connecticut River re- 

 fused to sell their shad unless a certain 

 number of salmon were purchased as well. 



The shad is so familiar to us now that 

 it might be supposed that those who study 

 fish would have discovered all there is to 

 be known about it, but such is not the case. 



The habits of the fish when ascending 

 the rivers, their methods of spawning, the 

 incubation of the eggs and the period 

 thereof, the habits and growth of the young, 

 and the life of the mature fish in fresh water 

 are all familiar, but when the fish return 

 to salt water they are, like the salmon, lost 

 to the ken of man. 



It used to be supposed that they wintered 

 in the Gulf of Mexico where there is 

 abundant food and that in January they 

 journeyed slowly northward, dropping de- 

 tachments at the mouths of various rivers. 

 It has been discovered that this migration 

 does not take place. 



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