June 1, 1882.) 



FOREST AND STREAM. 



849 



NOTES FROM THE RANGELEYS. 



THE ice left the lakes yesterday, and sportsmen are arriv- 

 ing daily. The season opens auspiciously. The pro- 

 prietors of the various hotels and camps have renovated and 

 enlarged their accommodations since last season, and inform 

 Bethey will be crowded with those, already booked. No 

 doubt Ihere will be the greatest rush here ever known. The 

 , soon-to-bc-eompleted telephone between this place and Phil- 

 lips doubtless has given an impetus in this direction. May 1 

 found many of the residents cutting holes through the three 

 feet of ice in the cove just at the landing, and soon com- 

 menced hauling out immense numbers of trout and land- 

 locked salmon. This continued while the ice was firm. Of 

 rever, the fishing has been done from the landing; 

 and boom of logs adjacent. The writer has seen many fish 



n exceeding three and one-half pounds weight. 

 valence that fishing here is not played out, nor 



failure. Those scourges of the waters, loons, are 

 meeting -witli a warm reception,"one person having shot four. 

 ' . '!' ',. : :? considered that each loon consumes its own 

 weight of tan daily, j t w jp ije Tea .fo\ y seen ' t i lat tlieir destruc- 

 tion is a desiuc.. atum . Wh y not pay a bounty for thdr 

 scalps as well as fo. f 0XeSj bcarSi h aw k s and other depreda- 

 tors on game? Capt. v re d. C. Barker made this place a fly- 

 m £Z' m u- if y ? s , 1 ? ce ^ooting it around on the east shore 

 of thebig lake to Indian Ro,a c , something like twenty miles. 

 He returned next day and laun. hed llis ste amers. and is al- 

 ready plying them. He states thai v. has never had so m , mr 

 applications at the opening as now. T3 V t jj e way j j ear ^ 

 that the versatile captain has lately wrifcen a biography of 

 John Danforth, of Parmachenee. Of cour* e j t i s a labor of 

 rlove, as their friendship for each other is typ-j^d j 5V that of 

 David and Jonathan. I hope to secure a" cop j sn "on The 

 life of Danforth as a hunter and backwoodsman, ', s j s ' we p. 

 known, has been eventful, and in many of his most interest- 

 ing adventures the captain was his companion. Sinte my 

 last communication, the Oquossoe has changed hands, an-f f s 

 no longer a public house for sportsmen. Rangelev Lako 

 1 House, John A. Burke, is ample in accommodations and 

 every way desirable. Waefield. 



Rangelet, Me., Mav 31, 1883. 



STATISTICS OF MAINE FISHERIES. 



CtENStTS Bulletin No. 278 gives the statistics of the fish- 

 eries of Maine, prepared by Mr. R. E. Earll. From 

 an examination of the tables it is found that, if the oyster 



industry be neglected, Maine ranks second only to Massachu- 

 setts in the extent and value of her sea fisheries*. The follow- 

 ing figures show the extent of the fishing interests of the 

 i so far as they relate to the sea fisheries : 



-Persons employed i\jm 



[Tesaela employed «06 



Toimaije of same 17,(5.32.65 



'•Capital dependent on the fishery hi dustnes. '. '. '. '. '. ... '. '. '. '. '. '. '. '. S3.37.VJ9i 



[Pounds of sea products as they come from the water 802,048 449 



i-value of sea product" as they come from the water 81,790,849 



•Pounds of seaproducts after being prepared for the market .118,123 048 



iuhaucemeiu of value in process of preparation $1,823,329 



value of sea products in marketable condition 3,614,178 



A similar summation for the river fisheries, as shown by 

 Mr. Atkins, would be. : 



tnployed 1,59! 



rCapital dependent. 878,308 



EflBh as they come from the water 4,730,244 



Isbls marketable condition 3,734,180 



milue of river products as sold $125,048 



I By comhining the tables of the sea and river fisheries, we 

 have the following totals for the fishery interests of the 



persons employed 13,662 



►Capital invested $8,454,802 



fishery products as they come from the water. . . .208,778.693 



; iroduote in marketable condition 11 9,918 328 



: uery products in marketable condition S3.739,'22i 



aluable tables are given, but we can only select a 

 few. The two following will be of interest: 



Table XXXIII gives by species the quantities of each of 



us kinds of fish and other products taken, and the 



i the same as they are tinaUy sold. If the weight of 



the products alone is considered, the six principal species, 



in the order of their importance, are as follows: 



. . Pounds. 



- morrtiun) 56,001,335 



hipea harengus) 34,695.192 



[i ■ --1 31,091 455 



<eis chuss and P. tenuis) 2111773:1 



Melanogrammua oglefinua) 17,788,785 



.Lobster (Homarus americanux) 14^34,182 



If. however, the money value is considered, the relative 

 importance of the species is somewhat different. The fol- 

 lowing arrangement represents the fisheries according to their 



nay (including the sardine industry) $1,043,722 



fishery 



hery 050,753 



Bshery 412,070 



278,888 



Haddock fishery 225,393 



TROUTING IN MICHIGAN. 



THE trout season has opened, and the speckled beauties 

 gamy, as I can assure you. Thursday night found 

 ' to their haunts, nine miles from here, and on a 

 hieh, for brush and windfalls and trout hpl 



this pari of the country, stopping over night at a 

 who lives half way. 

 Friday morning found A. M. Carr, our host and a. genuine 

 "'iple of Ixaak, and myself on the South Branch, and 

 r for sport. After fishing nearly half a day and cateh- 

 a few line ones, he concluded to 'go to the north and see 

 le could do better. He had hardly got out of Bight before 

 ruck a school coming up stream* and then sport began, 

 right royally, too, for the trout were hungry and 1 

 l" am not a pot-fisher, but I confess to a 

 a big catch, and I got it that time if I ever did in°my 

 1 confess to having captured before we left there an 

 .endid trout, while my friend bagged 101, which 

 found on returning home to pull down the scales 

 ™nds and a few ounces. We found sand dies as thick a*s 

 one can wish, but "dope" fixed them sure; Was fun for 

 but death to the trout. I took seventeen nice trout out of 

 i hole, something that I never have seen or heard of be- 

 _'. and I have trouted for nearly twenty-eight years, off 

 1 on. 



irayling are found about eighteen miles from L 

 lerman on the Ausable took in one day over 300 pounds. 



rthe market, shippingto Chicago, — W. E. if. 

 to htKE, Mich., April 21, 



He Must Be Believed m Future.— The regular meet- 

 ing of the Toledo Fishing and Hunting Club was 'recently 

 held in ! he parlor of the Burnett House. The question of 

 the truthfulness of the treasurer, J. E. Gunckel, as to his 

 fish stories, was the subject of a warm and animated discus- 

 sion, the irresistible tendency of the treasurer to deviate 

 from the facts on piscatorial matters being held by some to 

 be true beyoud controversy, while others as strenuously con- 

 tended for his entire truthfulness and reliability. 1't was 

 unanimously agreed that a committee be appoi iced consist- 

 ing of of three members in good standing, who are prac- 

 tically to test the character arid truthfulness of Gunckel's 

 fish stories. The chair appointed E. P. Moore, Fied. TV. 

 Baker, aud Maj. W. K. Leliet, with instructions to meet the 

 Gunckel at Ten Mile Creek, at the boat house of the 

 club, the next Saturday at 2 o'clock P. M. sharp. And it 

 was further ordered, that, as a test of said Gunckel's ability 

 to do all aud several the divers and sundry exploits whereof 

 he had boasted to the wonder and astonishment of several 

 Chicago drummers, that, if he do not, at the time appointed, 

 catch and land more fish than any member of the commit- 

 tee, then the charges of gross and inexcusable exaggeration 

 shall be deemed to be proved, but if he shall make goofl his 

 boast, the committee and all other members of the club shall 

 hail him as the boss fisherman of the club, and under no cir- 

 cumstances in the future doubt any of his statements, how- 

 ever unsupported or marvelous. The result of the fishing 

 excursion in testing the ability and truthfulness of J. E. 

 Gunckel as a true fisherman was a complete success, tie 

 not only excelled one of the committee, but caught and 

 landed more fish than the entire committee together. This 

 was not. only a test trial as to Mr. Gunckel's ability as a fish- 

 erman, because it is a recognized and an undisputed fact that 

 any person trailing from Tulpekicden, where Bill Bickham 

 lives, a man can catch fish in any kind of water or weather. 

 Mr. Moore, chairman of the committee, thinking he was 

 fishing m the narrow, muddy streams of his favorite State — 

 Missouri— attempted to throw his fish over his head. F. W. 

 Baker, while a good sunfish fisherman, disliked very much 

 *o use minnows as bait — insisted on worms. He got them. 

 ■M'jor Leflet, of the Railroader, when discovering Gunckel's 

 string well filled with choice pike and bass, became very 

 much disheartened, and was the first to throw up the sponge 

 and acknowledge Mr. Gunckel as a superior fisherman. As 

 the reporter was leaving the grounds Mr. Gunckel was fight- 

 ing a large ftfc, and Mr. Moore was wrapping up his line, 

 evidently giving up the ghost. Since writing the above we 

 saw the umpire, .*,•. William Lantz. He said Gunckel never 

 fiid so well, speaking scientifically; the committee was per- 

 fectly satisfied, and particularly SO considering the stormy 

 weather, The umpire abides that henceforth Mr. Gunckers 

 stories about fishing must v believed beyond any question, 

 and is the champion fisherman of Ten Mile Creek. Mr. 

 Gunckel caught nine pike, fiv« rock bass, three catfish, two 

 black bass, largest pike weighing five and three-quarter 

 pounds; total weight, nineteen nth, thirty-nine pounds six 

 ounces. E. P. Moore caught three oerch, one sunfish, and 

 lost several fine pike, owing to inexperience in landing fish; 

 F. W. Baker, not one bite; Major Leik-t, one sheepshead, 

 two bullheads, one pike. 



The Big Shad Net of the Delawauk — The ferry 

 boats sailing from South street wharf, Philadelphia, to the 

 shad-fishing shore at Gloucester, X. J., every half -hour in 

 the day, arc now carrying many of our citizens, nmong 

 whom are not a few ladies, to witness the hauling of the big 

 mile seine, which takes place three times daily 

 grounds. Your correspondent on last Wednesday afternoon 

 visited Gloucester and saw the high-water haul "made. Al- 

 though the number of shad caught was small owing to the 

 chilliness of the water, the catch of herring was large. The 

 foreman of the land end of the net informed me the work of 

 the Fish Commission was being felt ail along tin- Delaware 

 River at the different fisheries, and had it not been for the 

 valuable work done by the Commission in the past few years, 

 it would not have paid to fish either at Howell's Cove or the 

 r shore, shad were becoming so scarce. The stop- 

 ping of Sunday giil net fishing has also given the shad a 

 chaice to come up the river. Since the- opening of the season 

 at Gloucester, the big net has averaged from 4,000 to 6,000 

 shad per day, not counting the herrings which have been 

 taken in the* same seine to the number of 30,000 to 30,000. 

 The scow from which the large net is laid out is manned by 

 eighteen or twenty sable oarsmen with their white captain, 

 end is brought lo shore a scope of two miles 

 is inclosed by them, and the ropes being secured to two 

 capstans woried Met is gradually drawn 



in. This work occupies fully two hours, "and during the 

 operation the shores where the landing is made are thronged 

 with spectators anxious to see the result of the haul. In the 

 twenty-four hours of the day, five fishings are made, three 

 during daylight aud two during the night. Thirty hands 

 and two horses are employed to work the seine, and the work 

 has been generally quite a profitable one. Amileo] 

 of the Gloucester fishing shore, is Howell's Cov< 



tshed at Gloucester is not so large as the one used 

 on the Cove, but is deeper on account of the ship channel 

 win- e. in al\;v- wi dun the CXTClalt <S : . the seia; -vj^n tae-hau! 

 is made. It really pays one to visit these fishing shores and 

 partake of the planked shad, served as they arcs, fresh from 

 the water. — Homo. 



Poaching ON THE Potomac.— Washing on , I). C— I 

 would call attention to the unlawful fishing in the Potomac 

 at Weaverton. three miles below Harper's Ferry. I 

 fie Virginia auth more alert they* mjg 



be catching of baea with dip 

 iu Bridge in that Si ce in the 



District of Columbia that they did such a thing, they would 

 soon be brought up with a round turn. It is 



: all who fish near the Chain Bridge, Lit) 

 or McQuiu 



those pl;e | the river 



Mr. Levi Woodbury, proprietor of the St. James 

 Hotel, of this city, than whom there is no k< 

 either with rod or gun, was at MeQuad 's on V.'. ■ 

 and though the -■ 

 in catching eight fine [ 



scale to 1 ,'hich to save in that 



swift current v, . — Potomac. 



Those Cape Cod Salmon. — —I notice 



a little paragraph in Fo ; ■: .- 1 relat bag 



to salmon taken in M 

 Cod, and supprj 

 Connecticut Riv< 

 neither locality, but aie the 1 ;h Massachusetts 



and New Hampshire have been so liberally stocking the 

 Merrimac for the last few years, and which liave made their 

 appearance in that river for five years past about June 1. It 

 is only a few miles from the mouth of the Merrimac to Cape 

 Ann, and so round into Massachusetts Bay. and salmon 

 have been taken all along the eastern coast of* .Massachusetts 

 and New Hampshire, from Portsmouth, N. H., to the north- 

 ward, down to Cape Cod, while it is 200 or 300 miles in 

 either direction to the Connecticut or Penobscot rivers. The 

 Merrimac is now very full from the late rains, and we 

 are looking anxiously for the appearance of the salmon, 



nriilflit ,,.;ti i . ,,. « .—.-.„,] —"i,«._,.-. *.i.:.. „,.-._ * ,. ».i ..... *i,„ — ,„— ; 



to my subsequent grief.— Samuel Webber. 



Tennessee Notes.— Nashville, May 26. — An angling club 

 has been chartered here, with Gen, Ira P. Jones afcthe head. 

 I have heard of but very little sport this spring, the weather 

 having been too unfavorable, and the streams too high. 

 The Cumberland Angling Glub gave a- grand reception at 

 their grounds a few days ago. The ladies were amused by 

 catching several line bass from the ponds, and after a hand- 

 some collation enjoyed themselves in the mazy dance. They 

 expected your correspondent to write up the affair, but not 

 to be present at the entertaimuEiifc. bic transit, etc. — J. D. H. 



Gars. — Batavia, O. — The gars, //pi'/ostsus, are swarming 

 up on their annual migration. I slood on a "riffle" the other 

 day and watched, for over an hour, a solid mass of them, 

 twenty feet wide, and piled up on each other three or lour 

 thick, trying lo pass the rapii oting rflOBtof iny 



time now in inducing the small boy io kill them, by the offer 

 of a reward of $.05 pei bead arv< ,: musket and flsh- 



spear in town is pres edinti ad amafraidmy 



pocket will soon be sadiy depicted. Unless we can get rid 

 of them, goodbye to salmon and basal— H. P. 17. 



Adirondack Lake Tj-.out, — Bine Mountain Lake, Ham- 

 ilton County, N. Y,— Fifty-two pound's of lake trout were 

 taken here i*:i two days' fishing and trolling; by Mr. C. W. 

 Durant, who is stopping at the Eouse, the two 



largest weighing nine and a half am I dabali pounds. 



Fishing has never been better in this vicinity than it is this 

 spring. — C. W. B. 



Striped Bass in New Jersey.— Highland View, 

 Oceanic, N. J.— I have just succeeded in taking the first 

 bass (striped) of this season. Caught trolling, weight 3, 2 

 and 2 pounds respectively. Prospect good for basslng this 

 season. The boys are catching a few soft crabs. The water 

 is too cold for them to shed much as yet. — G. H. Wild. 



Moke Dead Fish.— Capt. Thomas Simmons, of the brig 

 Edward Hatton, which arrived on Monday, reports that he 

 passed through sixty miles of dead fish between latitude 

 39 deg. and 37£ deg. 



THE AMERICAN FISHCULTURAL ASSOCIATION 



PROCEEDINGS ELEVENTH ANNUAL MEETING. 



[CONTINCEDj. 



NOTES ON THE BREEDING, FOOD AND CAUSE OP THE 

 GREEN COLOR OF THE OYSTER.— (Concluded.) 



BY JOHN A. P.YDEK. 



OF no less moment than the introduction of radically new 

 and more certain methods of propagation, is the question, 

 ''Upon what does the o.yster feed; : and T what are the condi- 

 tions of life which will most quickly bring the animal into a 

 plump marketable stated The most contradictory and con- 

 fusing statements are made by different persons m regard to 

 the feeding [Ous as some of 



them may at first appear, many of them doubtless have some 

 foundation in substantial fact. 



Prof. Leidy, at a recent meeting of the Academy of Natural 

 Sciences of Philadelphia gtated jt as his bejfef that oysters 

 feed at times on the zoospores of certain algic, as those of 

 Ulva luHssinui, (sea cabbage 1 which he knewtrorri personal 

 observation to be green, and which he thought might possibly 

 be the cause of the green coloration of the soft pai ts of the 

 animal as sometimes observed hi certain localities. Very 

 possibly this may be the case, but judging from what 1 have 

 seen and heard from b men, as we]! as from what I have 

 read in various publications relating to this matter, I am not 

 inclined 10 ■ the only source of the unusual green 



tint of the flesh of the oyster, f hope to be able to show that 

 it is probably of vegetable origin, and therefore quite harm- 

 less. That it is not copper we maybe equally certain, as 

 Prof. Lewis's tests have shown, for any such quantity of a 

 copper salt as would pr heart and cysts 



in the mantle, such as are of would, without 



doubt, be as fatally poisonous to the oyster as to a human 

 being. The source of the green has recently been investi- 

 gated by two French savants, MM. Fuysegur and Decaiane, 

 who found that when perfectly white-fleshed oysti 

 supphed With water containing an abundance * of a green 

 microscopic plant, the Eiitsane, their 



flesh acquired acorrespondm^ green tint. Tie 

 also found that if the oysters, which they had caused to 

 become imbued with this vegetable gre 

 water deprived of tne w food, the char- 



color would also disappear. Wiu 



be seen, as some r • ate that 



it is possl- ■'. n. I oiyjuaismB may 



be d he to < 



above as the source of t i 



Patrick Geddea, in a ra of Nature, has pointed 



out that the "list of suppo animals, 



■ . 



r Idotea, etc . 

 their own intrinsic ehlorophyJi 



etating by pro.vy, if ra .: akj rear- 



ing copious algee in their own I 

 way by the vital acfci vh i ... 1 e of the 



iportant of mod. 

 ies, that living animal boi 



the tissues of the aaumal ho 



thj-own off by tL 



■ id brfcesr- 

 has re- 

 may be translated pretty nearly by the phrase, associated 



