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GETTING FISH FOOD FROM A POND AT A MICHIGAN HATCHERY 



Young trout and bass subsist naturally on small crustaceans and other living creatures, 

 and the best and hardiest hsh are produced when the fish-culturist is able to supply this 

 natural food. 



region, to the benefit of consumer, dealer, 

 and fisherman ; and the knowledge of the 

 food value of the mussel has gradually 

 extended to other cities, and its regular 

 consumption over a wide area, both ad- 

 jacent to and remote from the seaboard, 

 is assured. 



That a very extensive mussel fishery 

 will be developed on our Atlantic and 

 Pacific coasts is inevitable. Mussels oc- 

 cur in vast beds as yet untouched and 

 easily reached by tongs and dredges. 

 They are as nutritious as oysters and 

 clams, and, their shells being thinner, a 

 given quantity contains more actual food 

 than does the same bulk of oysters. 



A further advantage is that they are in 

 season at all times and are at their best 

 on the New England and middle Atlantic 

 coasts when the oyster supplies in the 

 markets are most reduced, namely, in 

 summer. 



The most advertised fish in the United 

 States during the past eight months has 

 been the tilefish. The advertising was 

 undertaken by the Bureau of Fisheries 

 in order to make known to the public an 

 abundant, palatable, and neglected food 

 fish occurring on the east coast of the 

 United States in a region readily accessi- 

 ble to the principal markets. The fact 

 that an astonishing amount of interest 

 was thus aroused depended in part on 

 the merits of the propaganda and in part 

 on the romantic and tragic history of the 

 tilefish. 



THE ROMANCE OF THE TILEFISH 



The tilefish holds an absolutely unique 

 place in nature, science, and industry. 

 So far as records go, no person had ever 

 seen a tilefish prior to May, 1879, when 

 Captain Kirby, fishing in a Gloucester 

 schooner south of Nantucket, caught in 

 deep water several thousand pounds of a 



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