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FOREST AND STREAM. 



[Sept. 13, 1888. 



ILLEGAL SALMON FISHING. 



IN June, 1887, the Legislature of New York passed a 

 law prohibiting the capture of salmon within the 

 State with any device, or in any manner, except that of 

 angling with line or rod held in the hand, and then only 

 from March 1 to Aug. 15. Furthermore the law required 

 all persons using nets in that part of the Hudson River, 

 within the jurisdiction of the State, to restore to the 

 water without injury any salmon taken in their nets. 

 Now that the United States Fishery Commission has been 

 stor-kmg Che Hudson with this valuable fish for the past 

 live years, and the salmon are in the river in more or 

 less numbers, it is pertinent to ask why this law is not 

 enforced. The fish have been taken from Gravesend 

 Bay to the trout streams of Warren and Essex counties, 

 and have been sold in New York, and other markets. It 

 is estimated that over three hundred adult fish, weighing 

 f rom 8 to SOlbs. , have beeu killed and sold by the shad 

 fishermen, and the only cases which have come to our 

 knowledge where any have been returned to the water 

 iminjured are a few about the city of Hudson, which is 

 under the immediate eye of one of the game protectors. 



On a recent Adirondack trip we learned that the young 

 fish in the trout streams above North Creek are captured 

 in large numbers by trout fishermen when the fry are 

 from six to seven inches in length, and are eaten. 'This 

 is especially time of Balm of ("tilead, and Raymond brooks, 

 which enter the Hudson between the villages of North 

 Creek and North River, on the western side of the Efildson. 

 We heard a guide say that he knew of over a hundred 

 young salmon being taken from one stream. As these 

 fish were legally captured with rod and line there is no 

 cause of action, but it is evident that the law should pro- 

 tect these fish. The guides consider them to be lake 

 trout, which they miscall "salmon," for they do not know 

 what a true salmon is. In the lower river the fish were 

 taken by the shad netters, in violation of law and, with 

 the exception of those taken in that portion of the river 

 over which New Jersey has jurisdiction, every man who 

 takes a salmon in a net is liable to a fine of ^100, or one 

 day's imprisonment for each dollar of fine, one-half of 

 said fine to go to the informer. 



That the fishermen are generally ignorant of this la w. 

 especially on the lower portion of the river, is no legal 

 excuse. The Commissioners of Fisheries should cause 

 them to be informed of the law before another season, 

 and then see that it is rigidly enforced. The fish way at 

 the Troy dam is now completed and at tlm last meeting 

 of the Commissoners one of the Board, Mr. Burden, was 

 authorized to post notices forbidding fishing within 80 

 rods of it, as required by law. If the breeding salmon 

 are to be taken while on their way to the spawning 

 grounds the history of the restocking of the Connecticut 

 River will be repeated in the Hudson. 



"Fish Fin." — Newport, Ky. — Editor Forest and 

 Stream: For the benefit of the angling readers of your 

 paper I send you a receipt for fish fin. as given me by a 

 chief of a roving band of Indians in the West some years 

 ago. I have never seen it in print, consequently it may 

 benefit some one. One spoonful each of common salt 

 and gunpowder and the white of an egg, mixed into a 

 paste and applied to the wound; bandage as in other 

 wounds. As mixture becomes dry apply fresh until all 

 poison is extracted. Keep the paste moist by covering 

 with damp cloth. I would like to hear from other sports- 

 on the same subject. A solution of permanganate of 

 potash applied I find beneficial.— Wau-kau-mah. 



A Btg One. — Dr. H. L. Hammond, of Killingly, Conn., 

 was fishing off Race Rock for sea bass aud flounders, the 

 other day, when he was heard to call for help. The cap- 

 tain exclaimed, "'He has got hold of a. shark !" The fight 

 was long and desperate, but at last the monster, who had 

 become exhausted, was brought to the surface. Clubs 

 and boa t hooks were used, and at last he was pronounced 

 dead and ready to be put on board. The shark measured 

 8ft. 5in., and on their arrival home he was found to weigh 

 exactly 389jlbs. 



Touhists seeking rest and recreation during the hot summer 

 months can obtain valuable information from the illustrated guide 

 books entitled "A Summer Jaunt" and "Summer of 1888" issued by 

 uic Wisconsin Central Line. These books are descriptive of the sum- 

 mer resorts in Wisconsin and Minnesota, reached by the "Wisconsin 

 Central Lino, and will be scut free t.o any address upon applica- 

 tion to James Barker, General Passenger and Ticket Agom 

 Milwaukee, Wis.— A.riv. 



CO-OPERATION IN FISH CULTURE. 



BV JOHN II. BISSELL. 

 LRead before the American Fisheries Society.] 



WITHIN the limits properly allowed for a paper iu a 

 meeting like this it is scarcely possible to do more 

 than sketch or outline a subject such as I have chosen. I 

 am consoled, however, with the reflection that the manner 

 and style will be passed with indulgence if only there be 

 some merits in the subjects presented for consideration, or at 

 least good faith on the part of the reader. 



I think it is generally agreed that .fisheulture has passed 

 its purely experimental stage. It is in fact fast becoming 

 recognized as a practical art, and an established department 

 of civil government; its definitely ascertained results, which 

 are uow unquestioned, fully warranting the recognition it 

 has received from the States and the United States. Hav- 

 ing so attained to the period when it is capable of being 

 made a useful factor in the economy of every civilized State, 

 the persons charged with the public duty of administering 

 its affairs and evoking useful results from its prosecution 

 ought ever to be looking for reasonable and practical ways 

 bo- secure it the highest degree of efficiency. The United 

 States Commission, with a new and broader organic law 

 recently adopted and put in operation, with its departments 

 of work newly recast and systematized, and under most 

 zealous and competent guidance, is prepared now to apply 

 in the solution of some economic problems the many lessons 

 of experiment and scientific observation, gathered and stored 

 up in the past. The States which have been dealing practi- 

 cally with the fishery question in the last ten years have 

 made good progress toward reliable and permanent methods 

 of fisheulture, and now at length are able to bring forward 

 some definite and tangible proof concerning its results. 



Fisheulture, when appreciated and invoked in both its 

 branches, artificial propagation and legal regulation, has 

 demonstrated its ability to restore exhausted fisheries. Of 

 that there is no need of citing evidence to this audience. 



The next forward movement toward the realization of the 

 great promises of the practical Art of Fisheulture, in this 

 country is, I believe, to be the working out of a .just and 

 comprehensive system of regulation of fishing as an industry 

 and as a recreation. A notable feature of this movement 

 will be the attainment of more substantial co-operation 

 among the organized bodies existing for its prosecution 

 under the State and Federal Government. 



I have in mind two principal topics: L Co-operation be- 

 tween the United States Commission of Fish and Fisheries 

 and the several State Fish Commissions; and, 2. The 

 limited co-operation possible between the Commissions of 

 neighboring States, or between States having similar fishery 

 interests. I am not unaware of the fact that the United 

 States Fish Commission has heretofore co-operated with the 

 State Commissions. But 1 wish to call attention to my con- 

 viction that such co-operation can be carried on broader li nes 

 with advantage to all concerned. 



You are all as familiar— perhaps many of you more so, 

 than 1— with organizations employed in prosecuting fishcuh 

 tural work in this country, so that no detailed account of 

 them is necessary. Here is the United States Fish Commis- 

 sion, with men, with means, with appliances and with 

 scientific knowledge, and while doing the same kinds of 

 work that various State Commissions are doing, yet doing 

 much more than any single State organization.' 'Here are 

 the State Commissions each prosecuting the particular kinds 

 of work required by local conditions under which in the 

 different States fisheulture is being carried on. At the 

 points where these different organizations have work com- 

 mon to each, why may there not be cordial and effective co- 

 operation ? Not merely the negative, of not interfering with 

 each other, but the positive working together to economize 

 expenditures and efforts, and thus increase general and per- 

 manent results. 



Bordering the Great Lakes are six States having a popula- 

 tion of about fourteen millions of people. The fisheries of 

 these Great Lakes, as their proituct enters into the general 

 commerce of the country, cannot be regarded as the concern 

 of the six States — they are of national importance. If the 

 fish captured in these lakes were consumed along their 

 shores I grant that the States would have no special claim 

 upon the general Government for taking part in maintain- 

 ing such fisheries, or helping in any way to their re-estab- 

 lishment. This was the condition of affairs ouce; but with 

 the modern facilities of rapid communication and improved 

 methods of transportation, their product is marketed all 

 over the country, and for that reason the States bordering 

 the Great Lakes have, in nay judgment, as good a right to 

 assistance from the general Government, in the directions 

 I shall presently mention, as the fisheries of the Atlantic 

 and Pacific oceans. O ir lake fisheries are not to be com- 

 pared in extent and value to those of the seas, but it is a 

 difference in degree, not iu kind. The United States is doing 

 a most necessary work in the investigation aud promotion of 

 the Atlantic fisheries, is preparing to investigate more thor- 

 oughly, aud help develop the industries of . the Pacific; it 

 has done the country an invaluable service iu examining and 

 illustrating the seal and other fisheries in connection with 

 the last general census; for all of which it has earned the 

 confidence and commendation of the country. Why should 

 not a similar service he performed by it iu co-operation with 

 the States bordering the Great Lakes in making an exhaus- 

 tive survey aud examination of the fisheries from Duluth to 

 the St. Lawrence River? "The reward of having wrought 

 well is to have more work to do." If the Commission has 

 not the equipment in steamers, the work already in hand 

 probably requiring them all, why not borrow one or more of 

 the revenue cutters that are lounging up and down the lakes? 

 I may be doing that branch of the service an injustice, but I 

 never have heard within ten years of those vessels doiug 

 anything more useful than cruise on a sort of dress parade 

 between Buffalo and Chicago. 



If a revenue cutter could not be spared, then why not bor- 

 row from the Navy Department a dispatch boat, or some of 

 the many steamers not suitable for modern naval warfare, 

 and have her fitted out for this service. To do what!-' To be 

 manned with the necessary crew, under command of an 

 officer not above such service, placed under the direction of 

 the United States Fish Commission, supplied by him with 

 one or more naturalists, and one or more men competent to 

 study and report upon the conditions, capacities and needs 

 of the industrial fisheries, supplied with drags, sounding 

 appliances, proper thermometers, duplicate charts of the 

 lakes, and complete fishing apparatus. Upou the charts 

 could be marked spawning beds, seining grounds, the liues 

 of inshore and outside, fishing, abandoned fishing grounds, 

 the lines where certain kinds of fish are most plentiful or 

 scarce, the pound-net fishing stations and the like. With 

 such an equipment it would be practicable to make a com- 

 plete survey of the fishing, feeding and .spawning grounds of 

 the great lakes; exhaustive scientific, observations and col- 

 lections of the fauna; a census of the fishing industry, its 

 methods, its product, its habits; iu fact, a history that 

 would, by its manifold and exact observations of the pres- 

 ent condition and requirements of the industry and its pos- 

 sibilities, lead conclusively to a knowledge of the causes 

 of its decadence, and what is necessary to be done for its 

 restoration and permanent maintenance, Is it worth the 

 expenditure? I think I can answer without hesitation for 

 Michigan waters. [ had occasion in 1886 to examine the his- 

 tory of Michigan fisheries, and was led to the conclusion, 

 after careful examinations and comparisons of such statistics 

 as are obtainable, that if our waters had been as productive 

 in 1885 as they were in 1859, with the effectiveness of appar- 

 atus and extent of operations in the former year, the money 

 value of the products of Michigan waters in 1885 would have 

 beeu not less than fifteen millions of dollars, instead of about 

 one and one-half millions. In 1887 I compared the product 

 of the Michigan fisheries for the year 1885 with those, of the 

 Province, of Ontario, and found that the money value of the 

 former, if computed upon the same basis as that employed 

 by the Canadian Department of Marine and Fisheries, ex- 

 ceeded that of the province by more than one hundred 

 thousand dollars. 



The States bordering the Great Lakes having an immedi 

 ate interest to be subserved by such an examination, as the 

 work is being prosecuted iu their waters, should co-operate 

 by furnishing a crew of three or four men to assist in 

 gathering statistics and other information, which would be 

 of great, value to the State Fish Commissions in illustrating 

 to the Legislatures the kinds of regulations required to 

 restrain wasteful fishing, which has gone so far toward de- 

 pleting the waters, as well as the kind arid extent of opera- 

 tions to restore productiveness of the waters. They might 

 also direct or assist in the fishing-operations of the" expedi- 

 tion. Such an examination would also demonstrate the, 

 exact extent to which artificial propagation of whitefish 

 benefited the fisheries, and indicate what points along the 

 lakes required atteution in order to the more even distribu- 

 tion of future supplies. The information so gathered would 

 help, by furnishing the required data; toward another and 

 most important feature in the regulation of the fisheries of 

 the Great Lakes, namely, the licensing of fishing as an in- 

 dustry. In alluding thus briefly to this subject there is not 

 time to more than call attention to the fact that a fair sys- 

 tem of licensing would in time defray all or the larger part 

 of the expenses of keeping up the supplies of fish when the 

 waters were once well stocked, as well as such part of the 

 cost of enforcing the laws as the State would be called on to 

 pay. There are several minor ways in which co-operation 

 can be advantageously adopted, but not of sufficient impor- 

 tance to be enumerated here. They are being employed 

 more or less, and are familiar to you all. 

 For many years the U. S. Commission has thus co-oper- 



ated with two or three of the New England States in pro ] 

 curing salmon and Schoodic salmon eggs, on terms, I be-' 

 lieve, equitable and satisfactory to all parties, and with 

 most excellent results. 



[TO BE CONTINUED.] 



THE AMERICAN FISHERIES SOCIETY. — The report 

 of the meeting at Detroit, in May, 1888, has just been issued 

 by the American Fisheries Society. As we have published a 

 synopsis of the. proceedings and are now printing the papers 

 read, further notice is not necessary. We note that the 

 Society has 114 active members, divided as follows: New 

 York, 60; Washington, D. C, 28; Michigan, 10; Pennsyl- 

 vania, 8; Ohio, 6; Massachusetts, 6; Connecticut, 4; Illinois, 

 4; New Jersey, 3; New Hampshire, 3; Wisconsin, 3; Ne- 

 braska, 3; Vermont, 2; and Canada, Georgia, Maine, Minne- 

 sota, and Holland, each 1. The Society should have a larger 

 membership in order to increase its usefulness. 



THE NEW YORK FISHERY COMMISSION.— At the 

 last meeting of the Board of Commissioners, in New York, 

 it was decided not to apportion the appropriation among 

 the hatcheries until after the beginning of the fiscal year, 

 Oct. 1. Mr. Monroe A. Green was appointed to be superin- 

 tendent of the hatchery at Caledonia, in place of his late 

 brother Seth. The selection is a good one, for he has practic- 

 ally had the charge of it during a number of years past. The 

 report of the Shellfish Commissioner has just been issued, 

 as has a synopsis of the game laws. 



F IXT U R ES. 



DOG SHOWS. 



Sept. 11 to It.— First DtiB Show of the Buffalo International Fair 

 Association, at Buffalo, N. Y. Entries close Sept. 1. 0. W. Rob- 

 inson, Secretary. 



Sept. 18 to ,'.'1.— Dog Show of the Westmoreland County Agricul- 

 tural Society, at Greensburg, Pa. John S. Sell, Secretary. En- 

 tries close Sept. 15. 



Sept. 18 to 31.— Third Annual Dog Show of the Westmoreland 

 County Agricultural Society at Greensburg, Pa. H. S. Branot, 

 President. 



Sept. 18 to 31.— First Annual Dog Show of the Syracuse Kennel 

 Club, at Syracuse. N. Y. Howard B. Rathbone, Secretary. 



Sept. 24 to 27.— Fifth Dog Show at London, Ont, C.A.Stone 

 Superintendent. 



Sept. 25 to 28.— Second Annual Dog Show of the Bristol Park. 

 Agricultural Society, Bristol, Conn. Entries close Sept. 22. C. 

 F. Barnes, Secretary. 



Oct. 2 to 5.— National Exposition Dog Show, Kansas City, Mo. 

 C. R. Evans, Manager, Room 1(5, New England Building, Kansas 

 City, Mo. 



Oct. to 12.— First Dog Show of the Virginia Field Sports Asso- 

 ciation, at Richmond, Va. B. H. Grundy, Secretary, Room 38, 

 Skater Building. Entries close Oct. 1. 



Oct. 23 to 26.— Second Annual Show of the St. Paul and Minne- 

 sota Kennel Club, at St. Paul, Minn. J. E. Stryker, Secretary, 

 Room 98 Globe Building. 



Nov. 6 to 10.— Dog Show of the Richmond County Poultry aud 

 Pet Stock Association, in connection with Augusta National Ex- 

 position at Augusta, Ga. H. Madden. Superintendent. 



Dec. 3 to 8. — Dog Show of the Northern Illinois Poultry and Pet 

 Stock Association, at Rockford, 111. A. H. Currier, Secretary. 



Jan. 15 to 19, 18S9.— Seventh Annual Dog Show of the Southern 

 Massachusetts Poultry Association, at New Bedford, Mass. F. 

 W. Dean, Secretary. 



Feb. 4 to 7, 1889,-First Annual Dog Show of the Columbus 

 Fanciers' Club at Columbus O. Thos.R. Sparrow, Secretary. 



Feb. 12 to 15, 1889.— Fifth Dog Show of the New Jersey Kennel 

 Club, at Jersey City, N. J. Geo. L. Wilms, Secretary, 142 Monti- 

 cello avenue, Jersey City, N. J. 



Feb. 19 to 22, 1889.— Thirteenth Annual Show of the Westminster 

 Kennel Club, New York. James Mortimer, Superintendent. 



Feh. 26 to March 1, 1889.— Second Annual Show of the Renssalaer 

 Kennel Club, Troy, N. Y. Alba M. Ide. Secretary. 



March 5 to 8, 1889.— Second Annual Dog Show of the Albany- 

 Kennel Club, at Albany, N. Y. Geo. B. Gallup, Secretary. 



March 12 to 15, 18S9.— Second Annual Show of the Fort Schuyler 

 Kennel Club, Utica, N. Y. James W. Dunlop, President. 



March 19 to 22, J 8S9.- -First Annual Dog Show of the Maryland 

 Kennil Club, at Baltimore, Md. W. S. Diffenderffer, Secretary. 



March 36 to 29, 1889.— First Aunual Dog Show of the Massachu- 

 setts Kennel Club, at Lynn, Mass. D. A. Williams, Secretary. 



April 3 to S, 1889.— First Annual Show of the Rochester Konnel 

 Club, at Rochester, N. YC Harry Yates, Secretary. 



April to 12, 1889.— First Annual Dog Show of the Mascoutah 

 Kennel Club, at Chicago, 111. John L. Lincoln, Jr., Secretary. 



FIELD TRIALS. 

 Nov. 1.— Second Annual Field Trials of the Indiana Kennel 

 Club, at Btcknell, Ind. P. T. Madison, Secretary, Indianapolis, 

 Ind. 



Nov. 19.— Tenth Annual Field Trials of the Eastern Field Trials 

 Club, at High Point, N. C. (Members' Stake, Nov. 15.) W. A. 

 Coster, Secretary, Saratoga Springs, N. Y. 



Dec. 3.— First Annual Field Trials of the Southern Field Trial 

 Club, at Amory, Miss. T. M. Brumby, Secretary, Chattanooga, 

 Tenn. 



Dec. 10.— Second Annual Field Trials of the American Field 

 Trials Club, at West Point, Miss. C. W. Paris, Secretary, Cincin- 

 nati, O. 



Jan. 14, 1889.— Sixth Annual Field Trials of the Pacific Coast 

 Field Trial Club, at Bakorsfieln, Cal. N. P. Sheldon, Secretary, 

 320 Sansome street Sar Francisco, Cal. 



COURSING. 



Oct. 15.— Third Annual Meeting of the American Coursing Club 

 at Great Bend, Kan. F. K. Doau, Secretary, 1310 Olive Etreet, St 

 Louis, Mo. 



A. K. R.-SPECIAL NOTICE. 

 T^HE AMERICAN KENNEL REGISTER, for Ibe registration 

 of pedigrees, etc. (with prize lists of all shows and trialsj, is 

 published every month. Entries close on the 1st. Should be in 

 early. Entry blanks sent on receipt of stamped and addressed 

 envelope. Registration fee (50 cents) must accompany each entry. 

 No entries inserted unless paid in advance. Yearly subscription 

 $1.50. Address "American Kennel Register," P. O. Box 2832, Now 

 fork. Number of entries already printed 6512. 



THE AMERICAN PET DOG CLUB. 



NEW YORK, Sept. 8.— Editor Forest and Stream: A 

 largely attended and enthusiastic meeting of the 

 American Pet Dog Club was held on the 6th inst. at the 

 residence of the second vice-president, Mrs. Eugene Clarke. 

 Dr. Surles, first vice-president, occupied the chair, wne 

 new members were admitted and eleven proposed for ad- 

 mission at the next meeting of the club. Mr. Eugene 

 Clarke was unanimously elected treasurer, vice Mr. W. J. 

 Fryer. Two of the newly admitted members, Mr. Walter 

 Goodenough, of horse shoe fame, and Mr. T. J. Dannis, were 

 elected members of the executive committee. 



Among the important subjects discussed and considered 

 at length by the club was that of holding a bench show in 

 New- York next May. While nearly all favored it, a few 

 hesitated on the ground that the club was not yet a year 

 old and therefore not financially prepared for such an under- 

 taking. This objection was promptly met by three members 

 who pledged themselves to be responsible for any loss the 

 club might incur in the giving of such a show. The subject 

 was postponed for final action at a future meeting, when a 

 full attendance is expected, many of the members being now 

 absent from the city. The annual meeting and election of 

 officers will take place in October. Those desiring to be- 

 come members of the club for the ensuing year may address 

 American Pet Dog Club, Box 1569, New York P. O. A copy 

 of the constitution, rales and by-laws will be mailed upon 

 application as above, C. Ormsby, Secretary, 



