FISHERY RESOURCKS OK THE I'HILII'IMMES, I. '}'A'l 



■A board. This operation is not necessarily done at any particular season, 

 bnt whenever the condition demands it. The Ocdogoniuiii is some- 

 times purchased and placed in an exhausted pond. A small hancn 

 load is worth one peso. 



A so-called "medicine" for the young fish (apparently used only in 

 small ponds where the \\-ater is contaminated by close proximity to 

 houses) is the Lciniia minor Linn., the floating roots of which are 

 greedily devoured. 



When the fry are to be planted in the pond, the water is again allowed 

 to drain off and the alga is partially killed by the hot sun. This, it 

 is claimed, renders the Oedogonium soft and fragile for the tiny mouths. 

 Eventually, the young iangos are removed to the great pond where their 

 <]uantity is largely governed by the supply of the food alga. 



The average value of the ponds aborrt Manila Bay is j^robably 40 

 eentavos per square meter, giving a total of more than 6,000,000 pesos for 

 the pond \alue alone, which I am convinced is a conservative estimate. 

 I chose one pond which measured 140 1)}' 170 meters as an average of 

 the twenty or more shown on a surveyor's map compiled from data 

 obtained from the owners of the properties. 



METHODS OF FISL-IINCi.''' 



It has been my privilege to make i)ersonal observations of the metliod> 

 employed in the fisheries of various parts of the world, in the United 

 States, Alaska, New Zealand, Australia, Honolulu, and numerous Pacific 

 Islands, also to some extent in Japan. Some time ago at the instance 

 of the Secretary of the Interior, Mr. Dean ('. Worcester and before 1 

 assumed my position in the Bureau of Science, I made a more detailed 

 examination of the methods employed in the fisheries ol the eastern 

 United States in order to secure the latest information regarding 

 the various kinds of nets and apparatus that could with profit be used 

 to develop the commercial fisheries of the Philippine Islands. 



It may not be out of place, therefore, to give brief descriptions of 

 such apparatus as seems to me to be of especial value and short sug- 

 gestions as to its use. 



SEI.NES. 



In the Atlantic fisheries a great manv more fish are caught wit li the 

 various kinds of seines than in any other way. In 1904, the New York 

 fisheries alone captured by this method 214,099,725 pounds of fish, with 

 a value of 82G,.>97 dollars, United States currency. 



'A full description as to detailed metliod of construction, size of twine, lursli, 

 hanging of net and methods of using can be olitained by applying to the I'nited 

 States Division of Fisheries. 



