﻿XI 
  

  

  econoiHY. 
  Ripe 
  iiiackerel 
  can 
  be 
  found 
  in 
  considerable 
  

   numbers 
  in 
  tlie 
  lower 
  part 
  of 
  the 
  Cliesapeaktr 
  Bay, 
  and 
  

   it 
  may 
  be 
  necessary, 
  in 
  order 
  to 
  conduct 
  the 
  work 
  cm 
  a 
  

   sufficiently 
  large 
  scale, 
  to 
  collect 
  and 
  hatch 
  the 
  ^ggs 
  out- 
  

   side 
  of 
  the 
  limits 
  of 
  the 
  State, 
  but 
  the 
  young 
  fish 
  can 
  

   thereafter 
  l>e 
  very 
  readily 
  transported 
  to 
  the 
  upper 
  por- 
  

   tions 
  of 
  the 
  Bay. 
  

  

  The 
  investigations 
  of 
  the 
  past 
  season 
  have 
  developed 
  the 
  

   fact 
  that 
  a 
  considerable 
  Tiuraber 
  of 
  I'ipe 
  mackerel 
  may 
  be 
  

   secured 
  in 
  the 
  neighborhood 
  of 
  Crisfield, 
  and 
  several 
  

   fishermen, 
  who 
  have 
  been 
  employed 
  in 
  the 
  capture 
  of 
  

   this 
  fish, 
  testify 
  that 
  it 
  has 
  not 
  been 
  a 
  great 
  many 
  years 
  

   since 
  they 
  could 
  be 
  found 
  as 
  far 
  up 
  the 
  Bay 
  as 
  lialti- 
  

   more, 
  the 
  mouth 
  of 
  the 
  Patapsco 
  lliver, 
  and 
  els*^wliere. 
  

  

  It 
  is 
  certain 
  that 
  the 
  numbei' 
  of 
  this 
  most 
  valuable 
  

   fish 
  has 
  been 
  very 
  materially 
  diminished 
  in 
  the 
  waters 
  

   of 
  the 
  State, 
  and 
  that 
  they 
  ai-e 
  becoming 
  more 
  scarce 
  

   BA-ery 
  year. 
  It 
  will, 
  doubtless, 
  require 
  several 
  years 
  to 
  

   restore 
  tliem 
  to 
  their 
  former 
  abundance, 
  and 
  to 
  make 
  

   the 
  catch 
  plentiful 
  enough 
  to 
  furnish 
  a 
  sullicient 
  number 
  

   of 
  spawning 
  fishes 
  to 
  warrant 
  the 
  establishment 
  of 
  hatch- 
  

   ing-stations 
  high 
  up 
  the 
  Ch 
  esapeake 
  ]^>a 
  y 
  . 
  Bu 
  t 
  a 
  s 
  th 
  » 
  ■ 
  ti 
  sh 
  

   can 
  be 
  very 
  readily 
  transported, 
  the 
  ])i'oi)ei' 
  mode 
  of 
  pro- 
  

   ceeding 
  would 
  seem 
  to 
  be 
  to 
  hatch 
  them 
  at 
  favorable 
  places, 
  

   where 
  they 
  can 
  be 
  liad 
  in 
  large 
  nuiubers. 
  and 
  transfer 
  

   the 
  young 
  fi'om 
  thence. 
  It 
  is 
  (piite 
  likely 
  that 
  they 
  Avill 
  

   return 
  ])e]'iodically 
  to 
  the 
  localities 
  where 
  they 
  were 
  first 
  

   dejDosited, 
  for 
  this 
  habit 
  seems 
  to 
  be 
  as 
  strangely 
  ('lunac- 
  

   teristic 
  of 
  the 
  coast 
  fishes 
  as 
  of 
  those 
  Avhich 
  inhabit 
  or 
  

   frequent 
  more 
  inland 
  waters. 
  By 
  way 
  of 
  evidence 
  in 
  

   su|)port 
  of 
  this 
  expe(?tation, 
  I 
  would 
  refer 
  to 
  the 
  ex])eri- 
  

   ence 
  of 
  the 
  V. 
  S. 
  Fish 
  Connnissiim 
  in 
  the 
  pi'opagation 
  of 
  

   cod, 
  in 
  (lloucestei' 
  Harbor. 
  Duiing 
  the 
  winter 
  of 
  1878 
  

   Prof. 
  Baird 
  established 
  a 
  small 
  expei'imental 
  station 
  at 
  

   this 
  point 
  and 
  succeeded 
  in 
  hatching 
  out 
  some 
  milli(ms 
  

   of 
  young 
  cod. 
  These 
  were 
  liberated 
  in 
  the 
  harlxti- 
  at 
  

   (Tloucester, 
  and 
  the 
  following 
  suiimiei- 
  and 
  fall 
  young 
  

  

  