amia — dogfish; bowfins 41 



pike, living for hours on the hook. They .can be kept "in a rain 

 barrel all summer without change of water." 



The hardiness of this fish and its willing endurance of conditions 

 fatal to most species give it a predominance in our waters, which, 

 combined with its numbers, activity, voracity, and wide range of 

 food, make it, on the whole, a dangerous and destructive enemy to 

 our fisheries. The time will doubtless come when thoroughgoing 

 measures will be taken to keep down to the 'lowest practicable limit 

 the. dogfish and the gars — as useless and destructive in our produc- 

 tive waters as wolves and foxes formerly were in our pasttires 

 and poultry -yards. 



