414 ; REVIEWS. 
river and stream in the country is now only a matter of time, for 
as it is proved that their construction is now simply a matter of a 
dollars and cents, and also that the interest received by the com- 
munity is very large on the small capital required to be invested, = 
the most penurious of dam owners will be forced by public senti- 
ment to keep the fish ways, which the laws oblige them to n : 
Mr. Atkins also enters into the question of ‘‘close time” ai d 
shows that far better results would be attained by giving up the 
close time at the mouths of rivers and genap Win a law ropu 4 
it is impossible to enforce the present law without breaking up — 
the fisheries, this proposed change seems to us a very wise and 
practical way of aiding the unjustly treated fishes in their eternal — 
“ struggle for existence.” ee 
An appendix to the Report gives an account of the fish breeding 
establishment of the Canadian Government, situated on Wilmot’s © 
Creek and under the charge of Mr. Samuel Wilmot. The two — 
plates illustrating the various plans of fish ways in use in this 
country and in Ireland, will be found of much practical benefit to 
persons engaged in their construction. 5 
Mr. Robert B. Roosevelt, who, of the three an 
seems to be the “ writing man,” assisted by Mr. Seth Green, who 
is preéminently the practical ‘“ fish breeder” of the United States, 
has given an interesting report of the work accomplished by the 
New York Commissioners during 1870, * | 
Mr. Green was sent up the Hudson in May, for the purpose 
obtaining shad spawn for stocking the river above the Troy dam, 
but owing to there being no “close time” on this river, and the 
consequent capture of about all the shad at its mouth, Mr. Green 
only succeeded in obtaining a few ripe fish (many days not get 
any, and the best day’s fishing only brought him twelve). Fr 
what he did get he hatched out and put in the river about. two. 
and a half million of young fry, or “more than double the 
yearly yield of shad on the whole river.” Asa commentary 
the condition in which Mr. Green found things on the Hudson, 
simply states that unless a weekly close time of one or two 
“SReport of the Commissioners of of Fisheries of the State of New York, for they 
ending Dec. 31, 1870, 8yo pamph. pp. 32. Side Dotumest. 1871. 
