Report of the commissioner for 1875-1876.

  • United States Fish Commission
Date:
[1878]
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Report of the commissioner for 1875-1876. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    proceedings, translated from the circulars of the Verein, will be found in the Appendix. Mr. R. Eckhardt, proprietor of the fish establishment of Lubbinchen, near Giiben, Silesia, presented 1,000 eggs of the “ Madlie Mnrsena,” a white-fish (Coregonus marasna, Bloch). This species is said to be found only in a few lakes in provinces of Pomerania, Brandenburg, and Hol- stein, of which the Madiie Lake is the most important. The eggs were shipped by the Bremen steamer the end of January, 1877, and on ar- rival were repacked and transmitted to Mr. Oren M. Chase, the director of the Michigan State Hatching-House at Detroit. The fish appeared in the latter part of March, and 409 of them were successfully placed in a deep lake in Otsego County, Michigan, known as Gardner’s Lake, where no white fishes had been previously introduced, and which was believed to contain no predaceous species. The result of this experiment of introducing a European food-fish will be looked forward to with great interest. Japan has in no degree been behind European countries in its desire for information as to the best methods of inproving the fisheries and multiplying fish within her borders j and Mr. Sekizawa Akekio, one of the Japanese commissioners to the Philadelphia International Exhibi- tion, devoted the greater part of his time in this country to the investi- gation. He not only spent a considerable time in various hatching estab- lishments, but visited some of the sea ports of the country, and made a fishing voyage for the purpose of studying this branch of American industry. At his request a full series of models of the more important fish hatching apparatus and the best forms of fishways was furnished in exchange for the contribution of the entire fisheries exhibit of Japan, a collection of very great practical and ethnological value.* The Canadian commission of fisheries, through Mr. Samuel Wilmot, presented 6,000 of the Ontario salmon eggs, Salmo solar, Lin., which were placed at the command of the New York commissioners, and hatched at the New York aquarium under their direction. From these 4,500 young fishes were obtained and deposited in Otsego Lake, at Cooperstown, N. Y., in June, 1877. From the railway department of the department of public works, * The list of apparatus given to Mr. H. Kubo, one of tlie commissioners for Japan, contains the following articles: One Ferguson’s hatching-jar. One Coste liatching-box of glass grilles. One Stone’s salmon-hatching box. One model Brackett’s hatching-box. One model Green’s shad-hatching box. One model Brackett’s fishway. One model Foster’s fishway. One model Eveleth’s fishway. One model Swazey’s fishway. One model Swazey & Atkins’s fishway. One model adaptation of Foster’s fishway.
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