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CHINESE FISHERIES. 
The antiquity of fishing in the West receives 
respectable testimony from the references to 
rod, line and hook in Homer, but for the earliest 
“Minister of Fisheries” we probably have to 
look to China. In his interesting paper on “The 
Fisheries of China,” published by the Washing¬ 
ton Bureau of Fisheries among the other litera¬ 
ture of the 1908 Congress, Wei-Ching W. Yen, 
Second Secretary to the Chinese Legation at 
Washington, tells us that “the first statesman 
that recognized the importance of the fishing in¬ 
dustry was Chiang Tzu-ya, who lived in the 
eleventh and twelfth centuries B. C., and who 
rose to eminence from a humble home on the 
coast.” Tradition relates that “this wise and 
virtuous angler, then eighty years of age, was 
fishing with a straight piece of iron, upon which 
the fishes readily allowed themselves to be 
caught,” when he was discovered by the Em¬ 
peror Wen Wang. He labored for twenty years, 
and raised fishing to the level of an important 
industry. With it grew an allied industry, the 
manufacture of salt, which was handmaid to the 
other when it came to preserving the fish 
caught. 
Pisciculture in China first started, we are told, 
in the fifth century B. C., Tao Kung being re¬ 
sponsible for a beginning by an experiment 
with carp. 
He dug a pond of the size of an acre, leaving 
nine small islands scattered about. In the pond 
he placed twenty female carp 3 feet in length 
and four male ones of similar size. This was 
done in the month of March. In March of the 
following year there were found 5,000 fishes 
one foot long, 10,000 two feet long and 15,000 
three feet long. In the third year the number 
had been multiplied ten or twenty times, while 
in the fourth year it was not possible to keep 
count. 
Carp must have been an amenable race in the 
China of that period, and Tao Chu Kung must 
have been much encouraged! More modern 
pisciculture, which doubtless has less sensational 
results, has been confined to fresh water fish, 
presumably chiefly members of the carp family. 
The fry are fed “with the yolk of eggs with very 
fine bran, or with beans ground to a powder.” 
The writer calls attention to the difference 
between Chinese and Western taste in the mat¬ 
ter of fish. Salmon, he says, nvould not appeal 
to his countrymen, ordinary fresh-water fish 
apparently being preferred. Fie gives a list of 
the more common edible fish—“perch, mackerel, 
sturgeon, goby, pomfret, eel, gudgeon, shad, 
sole, mullet, flounder, herring, carp, bream, etc.” 
The right to fish in streams and open waters is 
open to all, except in a few cases, and artificial 
reservoirs are brought into service as fish¬ 
ponds; even rice fields near tidal water are so 
used in winter. Among the methods of catch¬ 
ing fish mentioned is persuading them “to jump 
into boats by painted boards.” Something of 
the same kind has, it has been recorded, been 
not unknown on salmon rivers in Scotland, 
w r here a white stone, possibly simulating a fall, 
has tempted salmon to jump into a trap. The 
well-known method of cormorant fishing is, it 
is said, confined to one family, the Liu family. 
It is probable that the fishing industry in the 
China of the future will be a much more im¬ 
portant and systematized thing than in the past. 
Western developments have not passed un¬ 
noticed. A Bureau of Fisheries at Shanghai has 
been established with branches at ether im¬ 
portant centers, and investigation into methods 
and apparatus have been carried on. Even a 
school of fishery instruction has been started 
near Shanghai, so it is evident that the work 
is being seriously undertaken—Field. 
PENALTY OF LYING. 
Yeast; Do you think there is a penalty for 
lying? 
Crimsonbeak: Yes, I know a fellow wllo 
dislocated his shoulder while stretching out his 
hands to show the size fish he claimed he had 
caught.—Ideas. 
