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1885.] Document No. 1G. 13
AVith these cliscouragiag facts before you, there is yet within
me the strongest conviction that all the shad eggs we can handle,
up to fifty millions, can be taken with gill-nets within five miles
of the central hatchery, at an annual cost of -$000. If such a
supply is so cheaply to be had, it will never do, under any cir-cumstances,
to stop where we are. AVe have spent a great deal of
money in this particular work and have five hatcheries built and
designed especially for it. We have engines and pumps, the
most approved apparatus in the form of glass and tin hatching
vessels, shipping-cans and buckets in quantities, with spawn-pans,
rubber tubing, oil-skin suits, coats and camp outfit for thirty
men, all aggregating several thousand dollars, upon our hands.
We have most skilful men of my own training, all of our own
people, and we are as well equipped for such work as any country
in the world. If the aforesaid gill-nets do not prove valuable,
it is then time to withdrav/. If we do not try them we may lose
the only resource, and the only one I have felt quite positive
about for two years. An abandonment of shad-hatching now,
without fully testing the gill-nets, would be unadvised and against
tlie best interest of the people. Without recourse to the gill-nets,
I should now recommend the total abandonment of the shad
work—not tliat in its present proportions it is lacking in real
value in supplying more fish, but, as I said before, because you
cannot do enough with six to ten million eggs to convince the
people, and you would be carrying a dead weight, harmfid to all
the other fishery work and to your other attempts to benefit the
people. Now, a small sum of $500 expended as I would wish
it, will determine the question whether shad propagation can or
cannot be made a success. Until such examination is made, the
question will remain unsolved; and it is important, considering
our fine equipment in hatcheries and skilled men. With every
important point of detail before me, and a keen appreciation of
your responsibilities, I earnestly recommend the expenditure of
the above small sum for this special purpose. No other money
is asked for shad propagation this year, and this amount I ask
to test the final conclusion whether we are to sacrifice that already
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| Full Text | 1885.] Document No. 1G. 13 AVith these cliscouragiag facts before you, there is yet within me the strongest conviction that all the shad eggs we can handle, up to fifty millions, can be taken with gill-nets within five miles of the central hatchery, at an annual cost of -$000. If such a supply is so cheaply to be had, it will never do, under any cir-cumstances, to stop where we are. AVe have spent a great deal of money in this particular work and have five hatcheries built and designed especially for it. We have engines and pumps, the most approved apparatus in the form of glass and tin hatching vessels, shipping-cans and buckets in quantities, with spawn-pans, rubber tubing, oil-skin suits, coats and camp outfit for thirty men, all aggregating several thousand dollars, upon our hands. We have most skilful men of my own training, all of our own people, and we are as well equipped for such work as any country in the world. If the aforesaid gill-nets do not prove valuable, it is then time to withdrav/. If we do not try them we may lose the only resource, and the only one I have felt quite positive about for two years. An abandonment of shad-hatching now, without fully testing the gill-nets, would be unadvised and against tlie best interest of the people. Without recourse to the gill-nets, I should now recommend the total abandonment of the shad work—not tliat in its present proportions it is lacking in real value in supplying more fish, but, as I said before, because you cannot do enough with six to ten million eggs to convince the people, and you would be carrying a dead weight, harmfid to all the other fishery work and to your other attempts to benefit the people. Now, a small sum of $500 expended as I would wish it, will determine the question whether shad propagation can or cannot be made a success. Until such examination is made, the question will remain unsolved; and it is important, considering our fine equipment in hatcheries and skilled men. With every important point of detail before me, and a keen appreciation of your responsibilities, I earnestly recommend the expenditure of the above small sum for this special purpose. No other money is asked for shad propagation this year, and this amount I ask to test the final conclusion whether we are to sacrifice that already |
