Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 July 1916 — Says Fish Can Talk. [ARTICLE]

Says Fish Can Talk.

Stephen Decatur Bridges of Verona, near Bangor, who is known as the salmon and alewife king of the Penobscot, is positive not only that fish have brains, but that fish reason and form dislikes and tell their opinions to each other. Bridges explains the disappearance of salmon from the Penobscot in two ways—either “salmon tell other salmon how dirty its waters are and how it is not fit for any respectable salmon to live in,” or th fish resent it because at the hatchery in East Orland they are taken from the water and stripped of their eggs.** “The fish resent that because it is against nature,” Mr. Bridget asserts. “They decide they are not being treated right and stay away.”—Bangor (Maine) Cor. New York World.