Bulletin of the United States Fish Commission, Volume 14U.S. Government Printing Office, 1895 - Fish culture |
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Page 219 - Notes on a reconnaissance of the fisheries of the Pacific coast of the United States in 1894, by Hugh M.
Page 2 - Scales rather large, about 75 in lateral line, seven or eight above the lateral line, seven or eight below the lateral line. Lateral line straight except at origin, where it presents a rather marked curve. Sides of body uniformly bright silvery, with pronounced bluish reflection in life ; the back dusky, the under parts pure white without silvery color. Above lateral line, light longitudinal stripes involving central part of scales extend whole length of body. Fins flesh color or pinkish in life,...
Page 151 - River basin is insignificant in comparison with the number which some years ago annually visited and spawned in these waters. It is further apparent that this decrease is not to be attributed either to the contraction of the area accessible to them or to changed conditions in the waters which would deter the salmon from entering them. We must look to the great commercial fisheries prosecuted in the lower river for an explanation of this decrease, which portends inevitable disaster to these fisheries...
Page 184 - The range of variation seems to be very great, and characters which are of undoubted specific value when applied to Atlantic drainage species, do not possess any such value for classification of Pacific coast fishes. Each so-called species seems to be in a very unstable state of equilibrium, and not to have yet assumed or been able to retain, with any degree of permanence, any set of specific characters.
Page 68 - There is no doubt that Arkansas possesses piscatorial features of a high grade, which warrant more attention in the future than they have received in the past. The angler may find amusement along the picturesque streams of...
Page 144 - ... lowering and hauling back with the rope. An idea of what it is intended to effect may be stated briefly thus : Specimens are to be obtained between the intermediate depths a and b, the former being the uppermost. With the apparatus in position, there is at a the cylinder suspended from a friction clamp in such a way that the weight of the cylinder and its frame keeps the valve closed; at b there is a friction buffer. Everything being ready, a small weight or messenger is sent down, which on striking...
Page 472 - At first it was supposed they were the mountain trout, hut, being comparatively fresh from the hills of Maine, I soon saw the difference. The shape, general appearance, and the color are the same; at a little distance, you will imagine the fish covered with delicate scales, but on...
Page 181 - Quiarlpi" (basket people), from the circumstance of their using baskets to catch their fish (salmon). The season for the salmon fishery had not yet (in June ?) arrived, so that our gentlemen did not see the manner of taking the fish; but, as described to them, the fishing apparatus consists of a large wicker basket supported by long poles inserted into it and fixed in the rocks. The lower part, which is of the basket form, is joined to a broad frame spreading above, against which the fish in attempting...
Page 22 - ... much smaller in one of our specimens than in the other, mouth oblique, with rather slender maxillary, which extends to vertical midway between front and middle of pupil, its length from tip to articulation equaling distance from end of snout to front of pupil, and contained 3.66 to 3.8 in length of head; supplemental maxillary bone probably broader than in L.