AMERICAN SALMON 
AND OTHER FOOD FISHES. 
By Pror. BusHrop W. James, A.M., M.D., Philadelphia, Pa. 
While all who are interested in the great question of 
the protection of the seals in Bering Sea are waiting 
anxiously to hear of the final arbitration decision, we 
may turn a while to the study of the interest whose 
promise seems to be great in regard to both money mak- 
ing and the more plentiful and less costly supply of a 
very desirable food, the Salmon. 
Western salmon eggs have been carried in safety to 
the rivers on the eastern coast, and no doubt they will 
soon yield abundantly ; the shad fisheries in the Delaware 
have been saved from dissolution by artificial hatching, 
the return having been raised from 60,000 to 500,000 
within a very few years. 
German carp and English brown trout take very kind- 
ly to our smaller streams and sluiced ponds; there is no 
doubt that they would become plentiful if they were 
properly protected; but from the very small boy with 
his string and crooked pin to the more nobly equipped 
man of leisure, all seem to think that each alone has the 
privelege to take fish from whatever quarter in which he 
sees they are abundant, and it is just possible that a de- 
pleted private pond is the victim of some such marauder 
instead of having been visited by kingfishers, water 
snakes, or other disastrous visitants. The number of 
enemies from whom fish suffer has always been so great 
that nothing but their extreme productiveness could have 
saved them from total extinction long ago. And when 
we think of the popularity of weir and seine fishing, it is 
wonderful that there are any of the more desirable kinds 
remaining! even in the Karluk River, on Kadiak Island, 
Alaska, the most productive salmon fishing ground in 
in the United States, there is a perceptible decrease in 
the number of fish caught in late years, which is ac- 
