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HUDSON RIVER SHAD. 
AuTHorities differ as to what is chiefly re- 
sponsible for the lack of shad in New York 
waters this season. Professor Bean, of the State 
Fisheries Commission, attributes it to the peculiar 
activities of southern fishermen, who are reputed 
to keep the fish out of their natural spawning 
places.. Mr. Edward Hatch, Jr., of Lord & Tay- 
lor’s, holds, however, to a different view. Gar- 
bage, he contends, is responsible for the fact that 
shad no longer come here to spawn. 
“As he finds it, not only is the shad industry 
absolutely ruined by the polluted waters of the 
river and bay, but shell fish have been taken from 
the harbor and found tainted, where the water 
is polluted. 
“The pernicious practice of taking oysters from 
their salt water beds a few days before they are 
brought to market and putting them in beds at 
the mouths of fresh water streams to ‘drink’ has 
a tendency to bleach and plump them. Recent 
investigations have shown that the oysters taken 
from the ‘bleaching beds’ were distinctly tainted. 
“Shad fishing along the Atlantic coast is 
doomed, unless the State takes immediate action 
to protect them from the pollution of the streams. 
Shad, like salmon and trout, will not inhabit 
filth laden waters. low can we expect the fish 
to run up streams and renew their spécies by 

spawning, through fields of sewage, sludge 
acid, gas house refuse, oil from tank steamers 
and_oil plants and the waste products of mills 
and factories dumped into the stream almost 
irom its source to its mouth. The Delaware and 
Passaic rivers, which used to furnish the finest 
shad, are being ruined in this: way. Not only 
fish, but oysters and clams are killed and made 
unfit to eat in many of the estuaries of the coast 
and Lone Island Sound. 
“The pollution of streams throughout the State 
is becoming a very serious matter as bearing 
upon fish culture.. The pulp mills have ruined 
some of the finest Adirondack streams. Also in 
Maine the pulp mills have ruined the streams 
which were noted for their excellent fishing. No 
later than this spring the pulp mills attempted 
to pass a law authorizing the drawing down of 
some of the handsomest lakes in that well known 
fishing resort, but were compelled to desist by 
the prompt action of a public spirited gentleman 
in Portland. 
“Professor John W. Titcomb, in charge of the 
hatching service of the United States Fish Com- 
mission, predicts that in ten years, without the 
intervention of State protection laws, shad will 
become so scarce in the Atlantic rivers that they 
will. be purchasable only by the stewards of big 
hotels and those who supply the tables of the 
very wealthy. 
“Not only shad, but other fish life, do not look 
upon the waters of New York harbor with much 
favor. As they come up the Atlantic coast in” 
search of proper spawning grounds they turn in 
behind Sandy Hook and begin to scent the sew- 
age and manufacturing waste, oils and chemicals, 
and as they pass through the Narrows, where 
the enormous amount of 698,000,000 gallons daily 
of drainage waste is concentrated into the nar- 
row passage, they feel that they are not in their 
element. It is natural to suppose that they go. 
further up the coast in search of more favorable 
conditions. Even if they came up by the East 
River there are no bottom grounds anywhere 
alone the Hudson River which would be suffi- 
ciently unpolluted to provide spawning grounds 
for the fish. 
“The shores and flats are without exception 
covered with particles of sewage the entire 
length of the Hudson River to Albany and far 
above; and what inducement is there for fish 
to seek impure waters to live in, not to say 
spawn? The time was, not very many years ago, 
when one could see along the river front on the 
docks and from boats hundreds of fishermen who 
would sit on a string piece all day and return 
home at night with a catch which would gratify 
any one of sporting proclivities who was unable 
to go further from home. The fisherman is now 
as scarce along the river front as are the fish 
logically, 
“Even if the fish were to run the gauntlet of 
the Narrows and survive the nauseating influence 
of the sewage their whole bodies would be per- 



