Rensselaer Union, Volume 9, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 March 1877 — Fish-Culture. [ARTICLE]

Fish-Culture.

At the sixth annual meeting of the American Fish-Culturists’ Association, recently held in New York, reports and papers were presented from which We ! learn that, in (he State of New York, the culture of whitefish waa begun in 1808, and, to the present date, 1,758,000- fry and twenty-six boxes of eggs have been, dis; tributed. The propogation of shad was commenced in 1869, in which year 15,000,-* 000 were hatched. Up to the present date, 49,880,000 young shad have been introduced into New York waters. The first: experiment with 1 salmon.trout was made in 1870, since which time, 5,94(1,000 fry and 456 boxes of eggs have been given out. In 1871 the culture of salmon was, begun with eggs obtained from Canada, ana about 210,000 have been distributed annually. The culture of the California salmon was commenced in 1873, and a total of 636,000 have been distributed. In 1874 the culture of blue-backed trout, from eggs brought from Maine, was . attempted ; but the effort to introduce them was unsuccessful. In 1874, 36,000 eels were placed in Buffalo Creek, above NiagMStFA&A the aim of introducing them into Lake Erie. The first experiments with sturgeon, tried four years ago, were unsuccessful; but, renewed in 1875, proved satisfactory, and 100,000 young fish were turned into the Hudson. The hatching of brook-trout was begun in 1875, and 1,220,000 fry and twenty-four boxes of eggs have been distributed. Eggs of the California brook-trout have been received, but only 260 fry. were, hatched from 1,800 eggs. Fish-culture in Canada was bpgun as' a private enterprise by Mr. Samuel Wilnct, in 1865. Two years later the Government became interested in 1 the movement, and there are now six large Sub-breeding establishments in tlie Dominion, which have at present 6,000,000 salmon |Snd 9,000,000 whitefish nearly ready to turn into the streams. Mr. Wilmot exhibited at the Convention a salmon (Salma Will rmti) weighing seventeen pounds, which had been caught In a small stream emptying into Lake Ontario, where he had placed in 1865 the first salmon-fry that ever swam in its waters: Thousands of salmon weighing from five to twenty poufils err; j tered this same stream last ahtumn. Up to the present time these have been imported into California a total of 25,000.-. 000 eggs, at an expense of about one dollar in gold per 1,000 During the last year, about 400,000 eggs of the CaJifor; nia salmon have been exported to New’ Zealand. It may be added, in this con neption, that, Feo. 5. a steamer bound for New Zealand sailed from San Fnmciscb' with a cargo of 180,000 t whitefish eggs from Lake Michigan, with; trout eggs from New Hampshire, deer from Calfornia, and twenty-seven short-'tailed grouse from Utah, The next steamer bound for the same island will convey a consignment of prairie-chickens, Oregon grouse and pheasants. —Chicago Tribune. — ■ . •’ 1 :if