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THE GAME BREEDER 



More About Fish. 



In a speech before a Connecticut audi- 

 ence recently, Fish Commissioner 

 Graham, of Boston, Mass., drew some 

 instructive parallels between how New 

 England neglects and how certain states 

 along the Pacific seaboard protect the 

 inland waterways fisheries. 



More than a generation ago real ef- 

 forts were made to stock a number of 

 streams with salmon, and shad. In 1879, 

 for example, the catch of shad below the 

 Enfield dam on the Connecticut River, 

 amounted to 436,981. Ten years later, 

 as the result of intervening neglect, the 

 catch had fallen to 68,000. "The amount 

 of the increase in the value of the sha^ 

 caught on the Atlantic Coast from 1880 

 to 1885, the period of most active propa- 

 gation, was worth ten times what was ex- 

 pended by all the fish commissions dur- 

 ing this period." Today, in consequence 

 of damming and pollution, most of these 

 streams are barren. 



in 1871, 10,000 shad fry were trans- 

 ported from the Connecticut to Califor- 

 nia and planted in the Sacramento River. 

 Later several other lots were sent out, 

 totalling about half a million fry. A 

 closed season was placed upon them for 

 10 years. They have increased so rap- 

 idly that the fishermen are selling them 

 for $10 to $12 per ton for buck shad 

 and $25 a ton for roe shad. For the 

 past [hree years the Monterey Packing 

 Company have been canning the shad and 

 shad roe and sending it back to New 

 England. On May 18, 1915, they re- 

 ceived from the fishermen 63,000 pounds 

 of shad .roe and frequently receive from 

 40,000 to 60,000 pounds in a day during 

 the season. In 1915, 100,000 pounds of 

 shad roe were packed. After the in- 

 troduction of shad intO' California they 

 were distributed in the Columbia River 

 and its tributaries and shad as well as 

 salmon are now found in numbers in the 

 Willamette River. These fish ran up the 

 Columbia for 100 miles and then up the 

 Willamette, through the pollution from 

 the City of Portland — nearly half a mil- 

 lion people — and on up through the ref- 

 use that comes from the large manufac- 

 turing establishments at Oregon City. 



Over 250 tons of fine salmon were taken 

 at Oregon City during 1915, besides large 

 quantities of shad. The polluted water j 

 does not stop them. 



Another illustration oi what has been 

 done with New England fish is the plant- ■ 

 ing of about 400 striped bass in Califor- 

 nia water in 1879. They increased rap- 

 idly and were caught in large numbers so 

 that a limit was placed on them. No 

 fish can be taken under three pounds in 

 weight and none can be shipped out of 

 the state. Over 2,000,000 pounds have 

 been marketed in one season in San Fran- 

 cisco alone. 



A Pocket Score Book. 



The Du Pont Company of Wilming- 

 ton, Del., has just issued a pocket score 

 book that will surely be appreciated by 

 trapshooters. It contains 32 pages and 

 will thus allow the trapshooter to enter 

 the results of thirty-two shoots that he 

 may attend. Each page has space for 

 the place and date of shoot as well as 

 score columns for 14 events. 



On the front cover page there is fig- 

 ured a list of averages compiled on the 

 basis of 150 targets, which will save the 

 trapshooter a great deal of trouble when 

 he desires to learn how profTcient he is 



becoming. 



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Trap Shooting as a Patriotic Sport. 



The "Air Division" of the Signal Corps 

 of the United States army will soon in- 

 stall clay target shooting at its flying 

 schools. It is the firm belief of those in 

 charge of this branch of the Government 

 service that members of the flying squad 

 will be better equipped to successfully 

 engage the enemy flying machines if they 

 are proficient wing shots. 



This more than ever emphasizes the 

 fact that trapshooting is a patriotic sport. 



It is important to defer the ever in- 

 creasing number of game laws if game 

 is to become plentiful and cheap in the 



markets. 



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