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PICKING EGGS AT THE GRAND MESA FIELD STATION, COLORADO 



The Bureau of Fisheries maintains upward of one hundred field stations, some of the 

 most important being in Colorado. The eastern brook trout, originally introduced into Colo- 

 rado from New England, is now more successfully propagated there than in any other State, 

 and is being sent back east in large numbers to replenish Atlantic seaboard streams. 



England of a very important fishery for 

 the winter flounder carried on with trawl 

 nets. Formerly only comparatively small 

 quantities of this fish were caught for 

 market, but now millions are taken an- 

 nually, and thousands of fishermen are 

 making a livelihood in this new fishing 

 industry. 



The Bureau of Fisheries long ago 

 called attention to the value of this fish 

 and began its artificial propagation, so 

 that at present, the methods of culture 

 having been perfected, the government is 

 producing a billion or more young floun- 

 ders each year and planting them in the 

 regions where the fishing is most active. 



THE CASE OE THE SEA MUSSEL 



A noteworthy case of neglect, followed 

 by appreciation and utilization, is that of 



the sea mussel, one ot the best and most 

 abundant of marine foods. Hundreds of 

 millions of pounds are eaten annually in 

 western Europe, but in the United States 

 practically the only use made of them has 

 been for fertilizer and bait. 



In 1914 an advantageous opportunity 

 was presented for introducing this mol- 

 lusk in one of the prominent Boston ho- 

 tels, and through the assistance of the 

 newspapers the experiment attracted so 

 much attention that within a few months 

 mussels were, for the first time, being 

 served and given a conspicuous place on 

 the menus of over seventy of the prin- 

 cipal hotels, clubs, and restaurants of 

 Boston. The demand naturally spread 

 to private houses and to adjacent com- 

 munities, with the result that the mussel 

 has become a regailar commoditv of the 



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