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  larger 
  amount 
  in 
  preventing 
  the 
  people 
  from 
  catching 
  the 
  

   few 
  that 
  still 
  remain 
  after 
  generations 
  of 
  improvidence. 
  

  

  The 
  proper 
  function 
  of 
  public 
  fish 
  culture 
  is 
  the 
  stocking 
  

   of 
  the 
  public 
  waters 
  with 
  fish 
  in 
  which 
  no 
  individual 
  can 
  

   claim 
  the 
  right 
  of 
  property. 
  This 
  is 
  being 
  done 
  in 
  our 
  

   rivers, 
  with 
  salmon, 
  shad, 
  and 
  alewives, 
  and 
  in 
  our 
  lakes 
  with 
  

   whitefish. 
  

  

  Public 
  fish 
  culture 
  is 
  only 
  useful 
  when 
  conducted 
  upon 
  a 
  

   gigantic 
  scale 
  — 
  its 
  statistical 
  tables 
  must 
  be 
  footed 
  up 
  in 
  

   tens 
  of 
  millions. 
  To 
  count 
  young 
  fish 
  by 
  the 
  thousand 
  is 
  

   the 
  task 
  of 
  the 
  private 
  propagator. 
  

  

  The 
  use 
  of 
  steamships 
  and 
  steam 
  machinery 
  ; 
  the 
  con- 
  

   struction 
  of 
  refrigerating 
  transportation 
  cars, 
  two 
  of 
  which, 
  

   with 
  a 
  corps 
  of 
  trained 
  experts, 
  are 
  constantly 
  employed 
  by 
  

   the 
  Commissioners, 
  moving 
  fish 
  and 
  eggs 
  from 
  Maine 
  to 
  

   Texas, 
  and 
  from 
  Maryland 
  to 
  California, 
  and 
  the 
  mainten- 
  

   ance 
  of 
  permanent 
  hatching 
  stations, 
  17 
  in 
  number, 
  in 
  

   different 
  parts 
  of 
  the 
  continent, 
  are 
  forms 
  of 
  activity 
  only 
  

   attainable 
  by 
  government 
  aid. 
  

  

  Equally 
  unattainable 
  by 
  private 
  effort 
  would 
  be 
  the 
  

   enormous 
  experiments 
  in 
  transplanting 
  and 
  acclimatising 
  

   fish 
  in 
  new 
  waters 
  ; 
  California 
  salmon 
  in 
  the 
  rivers 
  of 
  the 
  

   east 
  ; 
  land-locked 
  salmon 
  and 
  smelt 
  in 
  the 
  lakes 
  of 
  the 
  

   interior 
  ; 
  such 
  as 
  the 
  planting 
  of 
  shad 
  in 
  California 
  and 
  the 
  

   Mississippi 
  Valley 
  ; 
  and 
  German 
  carp 
  in 
  ten 
  thousand 
  

   separate 
  bodies 
  of 
  water 
  in 
  almost 
  every 
  state 
  in 
  the 
  union 
  : 
  

   the 
  two 
  last-named 
  experiments, 
  carried 
  out 
  within 
  a 
  period 
  

   of 
  three 
  years, 
  is 
  a 
  success 
  beyond 
  doubt, 
  and 
  of 
  the 
  greatest 
  

   importance 
  to 
  the 
  country 
  ; 
  the 
  others 
  have 
  been 
  more 
  or 
  

   less 
  successful, 
  though 
  their 
  results 
  are 
  not 
  yet 
  fully 
  

   realised. 
  

  

  It 
  has 
  been 
  demonstrated, 
  however, 
  beyond 
  possibility 
  of 
  

   challenge, 
  that 
  our 
  great 
  river 
  fisheries, 
  producing 
  in 
  1880, 
  

  

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