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market freely, found in every restaurant of any size \n Phil- 

 adelphia, and the price before the season was over, went down 

 from 50 cents to 25 cents a pound. They were caught 'u\ e\ery 

 shore net and several gill nets took salmon weighing from eight 

 to twelve pounds. 



Sliortly afterwards Mr. Ford died and the Fish (Commission, 

 Avhen they got the eggs and young iish, insisted on planting them 

 to suit particular localities, some in the Susquehanna, and some 

 in the Delaware near Easton, the statement l)eing made 1)y the 

 then commissioners, "If Mr. Norris thought it good enough for 

 Easton it is good enough for us" ; and the result was inconsider- 

 able. But salmon have been caught year after year since then up 

 to this last year. Last year, as far as T have been able to find 

 out. no saluKm was caught; but last year a dead spent salmon 

 was found — a fish weighing about twenty-four pounds — at the 

 mouth of the Bush-Kill at the line between Pike and ^lonroe 

 counties. 



Hence, it is very evident to me that if from a ])lanting of one 

 year of (iO.OOO and another year of aliout 230,000, such a num- 

 l)er of salmon shoidd come back into the river, there is no reason 

 wliy we should not l)elieve and feel that it is possi))le to nudvo a 

 salmon river out of the Delaware by persistent stocking. 1 l)e- 

 lieve, of course, that the best fish to go in there is the Atlantic 

 salmon. 



The great difficulty we have met with is to secure eggs. 

 There seems to be some law which ])rohibits the exporting of 

 eggs from the Dominion of Canada into the United States, and 

 the trouble 1 have met with therefore, up to the present time, 

 is in the securing of eggs. 



I l)elieve that the only way to make a salmon ri^-er out of the 

 Delaware is 1)y hatching and planting large quantities of young- 

 fish in the tributaries of the streams such as these clear cold 

 streams abundant in Wa3aie county, eni])tying into the Delaware. 



We made experiments with the quinnat and it was a dead 

 failure. We planted them in the tributaries, the same streams in 

 which we planted the Atlantic salmon, and not a single fish was 

 seen after they left the streams. They were seen in the little 

 streams during the summer months but that ended them. 



We made some eiforts to domesticate the Atlantic salmon but 



