Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 May 1884 — The Father of American Fish Culture. [ARTICLE]

The Father of American Fish Culture.

Seth Green, who has done so much for fish culture in this country, is a native &f Rochester, N.»Y., where he was born March 19, 181?. His early education was of the common school order, but that he improved to the best of his ability. While yet young he manifested a taste for hunting and fishing, and used his ears and eyes so well that his talent as an angler and in woodcraft perceptibly developed, and for years his place was the resort of the lovers of game and of the finny tribes. He devoted himself to business so successfully that ina few years he was at the head of a large concern, with agents scattered along the main water courses and lakes of New York. In the year 1838 he began to devote himself to practical fish culture, and after many experiments in 1864 he organized the fish-breeding establishments at Caledonia Springs, in Livingston County, which he conducted with success for four years. In 1867 he constructed a shad-hatching box which had been extensively and successfully used in stocking the Connecticut, Hudson, and other rivers, and in the following year was appointed one of the Fish Commissioners of his native State, but resigning not long after, was made Superintendent of fisheries of New York. Mr. Green has published several works on fish culture, and his services have been recognized abroad in the two gold medals sent him by one of the French societies. His labors in fish culture are now well known over all this continent, and in Europe his name is equally familiar to those interested in this line. Mr. Green has been justly styled the father of American fish culture. —Inter Ocean.