INTERIOR OF A WHITEFISH HATCHERY, SHOWING PECULIAR ARRANGEMENT OE THE 



JARS IN A "LATTERY" 



This arrangement economizes space and water and is used throughout the Great Lakes region, 

 where very large numbers of eggs are handled 



About 350,000,000 baby mussels were 

 thus inoculated on fishes in 191 5 at the 

 Fairport station, and buttons have ac- 

 tually been made from the shells of mus- 

 sels that had been grown from the larval 

 stage in the laboratory ponds. 



Fashions in fish like fashions ix 



CLOTHES 



For some years the Bureau of Fish- 

 eries has been conducting experiments to 

 show the potential value of aquatic re- 

 sources that are either wholly neglected 

 or only inadequately utilized in the 

 United States, and has inaugurated sev- 

 eral campaigns to induce our people to 



eat new fish and other water products. 

 This is one of the most important serv- 

 ices that can be rendered to a nation, and 

 the success of some of these efforts has 

 encouraged the hope and belief that re- 

 sults of large economic significance may 

 be obtained from various other articles 

 to which fishermen, dealers, and the pub- 

 lic are now indifferent. 



There are fashions in fish just as there 

 are fashions in clothes. The American 

 public has from the beginning been fas- 

 tidious and fickle in its tastes for aquatic 

 foods and has- been loath to accept arti- 

 cles which other countries long ago 

 adopted as staples. 



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