Bulletin of the United States Fish Commission, Volume 15U.S. Government Printing Office, 1896 - Fish culture |
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Page 103 - I am told they will do the same on firing a great gun, and that when men-of-war meet a lobster boat a jocular threat is used, that if the master does not sell them good lobsters they will salute him.
Page 220 - Hole the greater number of eggs are extruded during the latter part of July and the first half of August. The...
Page 5 - ... probably correct. In like manner the finding of the cestode Discocephalum pileatum in the cub-shark, while not justifying a change in any record of habitat, at least calls in question the validity of a former identification. This species was based on four specimens obtained from material brought to the laboratory of the United States Fish Commission at Woods Hole, Massachusetts, July 19, 1886, and taken from what was reported to me to be a dusky shark (Carcharhinus obscurus). The viscera only...
Page 273 - III. A. — On the Distribution of the Fishes of the Alleghany Region of South Carolina, Georgia, and Tennessee, with descriptions of new or little known species.
Page 185 - Oniscus) belonging to distinct genera, others I killed with camphor by an easy slow death; the result was that in no instance was the attitude exactly the same, and in several instances the attitudes of the feigners and of the really dead were as unlike as they could possibly be.
Page 147 - In regard to the first category, no authentic case is known which conforms to it. In every case so far recorded "no right arm is ever succeeded on the same side of the body by another arm properly formed as- right and no crustacean has two right legs in succession, where one should be
Page 35 - Fertilization took place in 1874 at the latest. There has been no male in the nest since then, and, moreover, it is, I believe, well established that queen ants and queen bees are fertilized once for all. Hence the spermatozoa of 1874 must have retained their life and energy for thirteen years, a fact, I believe, unparalleled in physiology.
Page 354 - ... determining the outcome of artificial propagation in regions in which it is not possible to distinguish with satisfactory accuracy the natural from the artificial conditions. If these far-reaching, and no doubt permanent, results attend the planting, on few occasions, of small numbers of fry in waters to which the fish are not indigenous, is it not permissible to -assume that much more striking consequences must follow the planting of enormous quantities of fry, year after year, in native waters...
Page 354 - ... individuals have occasionally been obtained in salmon nets. Of scarcely less consequence than the actual results of shad introduction on the west coast is the important bearing which the success of the experiment must have in determining the outcome of artificial propagation in regions in which it is not possible to distinguish with satisfactory accuracy the natural from the artificial conditions. If these far-reaching, and no doubt permanent, results attend the planting, on few occasions, of...
Page 119 - the lobster, when berried, is in the very best possible condition for food." The average weight of the io.5-inch male lobster (the present legalized length limit in Maine, New Hampshire, and certain districts of Canada) is about 1.75 pounds, a corresponding female without eggs weighing about an ounce less. At 9 inches (legalized in New York, Rhode Island, Connecticut, in Massachusetts...