" — — — 230 FOREST AND STREAM. [April 20, 1882. THE AMERICAN FISHCULTURAL ASSO- Upon again assembling an election of officers for the called, by those that pretend to know, "kingfish." I have following year was then declared in order, the first being CIATION. also bought them from fish dealers, and they gave them the that of president. PROCEEDINGS ELEVENTH ANNUAL MT5ETING. same name. The fish in shape somewhat resembled a trout, Mr. Miller nominated Mr. George Shepard Page for and in length was from ten to fifteen inches; color, if my President called on Col. Mc Donald to state what President. No other name was proposed and he balloted THE was memory does not fail me, dark yellowish brown, with some had been done in the way of retarding shad eggs with a for and elected. little marking on the sides. Those I have taken have always view to transportal, ion across the ocean. Mr. Blackford recounted the services of Mr. Page to been on weakfish grounds. Webster's dictionary gives an Col. McDonald—The results of the experiments have fisbeultme and stated that it was from his suggestion that the engraving of the Southern "kingfish or opah"; this is NOT shown that, retardation cannot be carried six days, States beyond in United Commission on Fish and Fisheries hud sprung, the fish I referred to. the case of shad eggs. In connection with Prof. Ryder I and other facts which are matters of record. I thank Ned Buntline for the kindly manner in which he undertook to retard them by keepiug them at a constant tem- Mr Mather then named Mr. James Benkard for Vice- has overhauled my article; it shows that he is in search of perature, but it was late in the season and the water was up President, and his election followed. light; hope he got some. to J. R,, jr. 75deg. We found that at 60deg. we could secure a bet- Mr. Page alluded to the fact that the South Side Sports- ter development in from seven to eight davs. but when the men's Club, of Long Island, of which Mr. Benkard is temperature Trout in the Adiuondacks.—Enclosed find slip was below that figure the development was President, would market four thousand pounds of brook a from the Chateaugay Record of March abnormal, and the result was only a period of eight days, trout this year, bringing the handsome sum of 24, 1882. The statement $3,000. He is to wholly true, and much more might be added to it, not enough take them across. Eggs had been taken from mentioned this because, it has been asserted that this fish for fish while on a flying trip to the lake (Upper the at a temperature of 75deg. and then kept in water at cannot be successfully raised for market, an error that the Chateaugay) one day last week I saw five trout, a temperature of fiOdeg. for seven and eight days, and healthy club is slowly correcting. salmon the smallest weiging six pounds, and the largest eight and one-quarter fish hatched. When kept for a longer period," or at a lower Mr, Blackford named Mr. Charles B. Evarts for Treas- pounds, ah taken from one hole temperature, the fish were invariably unhealthy. urer. through the ice. Our "shad," or white It had been Mr. Annin named Mr. E.G. Blackford ; upon ballot proved by experiment, that fish, (a delicious fish by the way) are being taken in the same eggs kept in wet flannels in a, Mr. Blackford was elected and Mr. Evarts moved that it be way. The speckled trout damp atmosphere at a temperature of 60deg. for forty-three made unanimous; carried. I am glad to say are saving their strength for the fly. All the fishermen hours could be successfully hatched. The'problem of suc- Mr. Evarts named Earnest Phillips for Corresponding and 'guides that I have cessful hatching while come in contact with from different parts of the Adirondacks the e'ggs were en route has now been Secretary ; elected. within the past six months speak of last season as solved by the use of closed hatching apparatus. This con- Mr. Blackford named James Annin, Jr., for being an Recording "off sists simply of a jar year," but that the "signs of the times," and the extra- of about five quarts capacity, with two Secretary ; elected. ordinary way in which the fish are tubes leading into it. One of these, at the bottom, fur- An Executive Committee, whose names are given below, now taking bait indicate that the coming season will be one of unusual nishes a constant supply of fresh water, and the other, at the was then elected. The officers of the Association for 1382-3 success in that direction. The slip from the Record > ' top, carries off the impure water. As this water is forced now are: says 'As a result of the efforts of Messrs. Humphrey and into and carried out of the jar under pressure, and as the George Shepard Page, New York, President. Boomhower, and other gentlemen who have caused 75,000 eggs which the jar would contain he in a solid mass at James Benkard, South Side Club, Vice-President. many thousands of lake and salmon trout to be placed in the waters the, bottom, the motion of a train or rolling of a vessel would Eugene G. Blackford, New York, Treasurer. of Upper Chateaugay Lake, the fishermen are now catching with not: affect the spawn. If we cannot retard the hatcbinsr Barnet Phillips, Brooklyn, Corresponding Secretary. sunk bait many pounds of as fine fish as were ever taken until reaching the other side might at least it from those waters, we delay so far James Annin, Jr. , Caledonia, N. Y. , Recording Secretary and one gentleman, that the fish would reach there before requiring food. This who is good authority, declares that the Executive Committee. Chateaugay Lakes are to-day as closed apparatus has an advantage over the" open ones for well" stocked with lake Fred Mather, Forest and Stream, and salmon trout as ocean travel, in the fact that the eggs are not displaced by (Chairman). any body of water of the size in the G. Brown Goode, Smithsonian Institute, Washington, State of New York." Ralph's, motion as in the closed jars, the rolling of a ship would not D.C. the popular summer hotel, Seth Weeks, Cony, Pa. has been enlarged this last winter to three affect the eggs in the least; they would lie as quietly as on a times its former Bent. W. West, Fulton Market, New York. capacity, and many of the old guests have labratory table. All that we would need is a water supply, already engaged T. B. Ferguson, Washington, D. rooms there. Jno. or a means of securing purity to the water by circulation C. Chas. B. Evarts, Windsor, Vt. With this apparatus shad spawn might be carried to Europe Dr. W.'M. Hudson, Hartford, Conn. The Connecticut as safely and successfully as they are now transported to the River has flowed a much larger body of water this season than rivers of California, Colorado and Texas. The only question [By an oversight the first paper, read by Mr. McGovern, the spring of last year. In conse- quence thereof the catch of shad and that a practical culturist is now required to answer is as to was omitted from our last issue. It will be given in our alewives promises to be first rate. Already the Brothers the ability to keep a supply of pure water to feed these next issue.] Douglass have caught several bushels of "whops" and one shad, closed jars while a vessel was en route. It has been known to besides a considerable quantity of suckers, flshculturists for years that the eggs of the mlmonidm could BULLTROUT AND POMPANO. perch, and dace. In their pot, which they set, close to the shore every be transported out of the water without; injury, but not un- spring, they caught, last your issue of March 23 I find a note on the "Bull Saturday morning, til very recently that the IN a fine muscalonge, which weighed an same thing could' be done with Trout" of Lake Coeur d' Aline, Idaho, in which the state- ounce less than eight pounds the eggs of the shad, This discovery was the result of au ac- when" taken from the water. ments are made, on the authority- of Drum Major Lattes, that The beauty cident. I hail been thinking of transporting was presented to Mr. E. M. Reed, Vice Presi- shad eggs for this bull trout is it, is a "charr;" that" identical with the charr dent of the York, some time, and had constructed an apparatus for earn, in^ New New Haven and Hartford Railroad. of the lakes of Scotland and Ireland, and that it was first Just 400,000 in a man's hand, when what the effect will be with the shad because of the we were suddenly called upon described by Dr. Richardson as the "hood charr" (Seilmo closing up of the Enfield dam, four miles above this place, to use it. The Pish Commission had a lot, of eggs in water hoodii). last summer, as regards their going any further up the river', on board of a steam launch on the wav from the spawning I have examined specimens of this bull trout sent by Capt. remains to be seen. grounds on the Potomac to the hatchery We think that the fishway is sufficient, in the Navy Tarrl Bendire to the National Museum.