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The building of fishways has never in this country received the attention that the 

 subject deserves and the cost of construction of such means for fish to find proper 

 spawning grounds, better pasturage and purer water and to spread staple food for the 

 people over a greater area, is a good investment because of the benefit which will 

 surely be derived from it. European fishways have been constructed chiefly for the 

 passage of salmon, and, in fact, the early fishways in this country were designed 

 almost entirely for this fish, until the belief prevails that fish passes are necessary only 

 for anadromous fish. This idea is entirely wrong, for where fishways have been con- 

 structed in this State nearly all our fresh-water food fishes — black bass, pickerel, pike- 

 perch, bullheads, rock bass, yellow perch, suckers, etc., have availed themselves of 

 such means to find new spawning grounds or more food, so that fishways are often 

 necessary for our common fish that never go to salt water. 



A. N. CHENEY, 



State Fish Culturist. 



ROOMS ON THE FIRST FLOOR. 



