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THE NATIONAL. GEOGRAPHIC MAGAZINE 



REMOVING SHAD EGGS AT A STATION IN NORTH CAROLINA 



Nearly 3,000 millions of young shad have been planted by the Bureau of Fisheries in 

 coastal streams. All the eggs from which these fish were hatched were taken from fish that 

 had been caught for market, and hence would have been totally lost if the bureau had not 

 collected them from the fishermen (see pages 430 and 435). 



Immediate results have been seen at the 

 government hatchery in the Albemarle 

 Sound region. The collection of shad 

 eggs in these waters in five years had 

 dropped from 75 million to 63^ million. 

 The next year, which was the first of en- 

 forcement of the new laws, the collection 

 was 253/^ million, and in 1908 and 1909 



the most successful shad hatchery was in 

 this State, the egg collections exceeding 

 55 million and 60 million, respectively. 



RESCUING THE MARYLAND OYSTER BEDS 

 FROM EXTINCTION 



The oyster fishery has had a common 

 history in all of the Southern States, of 



