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-IKioe and thrive for a time — not s;) with ?h;ul. In 1S>!S the !Xatioiial (uiverninent 

 placed 3,000,000 shad fry in a pond at Washington having an area of five acres: 50 

 jier cent were grown to fingerling size; that was considered good work. x\.t I^eosho 

 -tation. in ^Missouri, 1893. 200,000 tingerlings were produced from TOO.dOO fry sent 

 from Washington. That was considered fairly good work nnder the conditions 

 existing- there. ' We have many things yet to learn about the rearing of shad ; how- 

 ever, the evidence so far produced indicates that it may be suceessf idly done at the 

 new hatchery and shad iishing- in the Hudson much improved thereby. When all the 

 ponds are completed the Linlithgo hatchery will be one of the best in this country. 



International aspects of the Shad question. 



A number of witnesses, at several sittings of the Commission, claimed that to 

 properly deal with the shad question would involve some reference to the shad fisheries 

 of the United States, inasmuch as there has been a long established opinion, held by 

 different parties, that the shad fisheries of the Bay of Fundy are, in many ways, 

 closely connected with the more southern fisheries of the United States. We have, 

 in the main body of our report, expressed our views as to the relation of the Caiiadian 

 and United States schools of shad; but there can be no doubt that at the border line 

 the shad fishery has assumed an international aspect, and it is important to notice 

 that the question came up before the International Fisheries Congress at Washington 

 in September, 1908. During the progress of the Commission's work, the chairman 

 of the Commission had been appointed by the Dominion government as representative 

 of Canada at the Fisheries Congress in Washington, and this gave him an 

 opportunity of bringing up the question of the international aspect of the shad fish- 

 eries. As Commissioner from Canada, the chairman was able to bring before the 

 Congress a resolution on the shad fisheries, and the matter was discussed by the dis- 

 tinguished representatives from different localities interested and it was agreed that 

 united action on the part of Canada and the United States would be a great aid, 

 especially by the formation of uniform regulations and the carrying out of a common 

 policy in protecting and restoring the shad industry. Further, an International 

 Fisheries Commission was appointed under the treaty of April 8, 1908, under which 

 the chairman of this Commission, and President Starr Jordan, of California, were 

 authorized to formulate a code of International Regulations. The shad fishery is one 

 which will without doubt come under the purview of this Commission, and the action 

 suggested by the International Congress will be given full consideration by the Com- 

 missioners representing the two countries. 



Salmon and Gaspereau. 



To the instructions originally issued to the Commission were subsequently added 

 directions to report on these two important fisheries — salmon and gaspereau — carried 

 ■ n in the same bays, river.* and waters generally in which the shad fishei'y is con- 

 ducted. 



It must be noted, in the first place, that the schools of salmon and gaspereau 

 >ln not ascend to the spawning grounds at precisely the same time as the shad, and 

 the fi.shing is not contemporaneous, although it may be that in some localities shad 

 fishing is ostensiby carried on, when salmon are really the fish caught. 



