Eighteenth Report Of The Fish Commissioners Of The State Of Connecticut To The General Assembly

Author : Connecticut General Assembly
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780331380934
Total Pages : 624 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book Fifteenth Report of the Fish Commissioners of the State of Connecticut, to the General Assembly, January Session, 1881 (Classic Reprint) written by Connecticut General Assembly and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-11-18 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Fifteenth Report of the Fish Commissioners of the State of Connecticut, to the General Assembly, January Session, 1881 The territorial extent of Connecticut, only square miles, is insignificant in comparison with that of most of her sister States, only three being smaller than herself. Her waters, therefore, are not so numerous nor so extensive for varied cultivation; but the Com missioners believe that in the progress made towards a complete development of her limited resources she is second to no other State. This work began with the introduction of full-grown black bass into the principal ponds of each County in the State, and it proved an encouraging success. About the same time an attempt was made to restock the depleted rivers of the State with such fish as had been known to thrive there in earlier times. It was believed that the shad and salmon, for example, could be restored to the Connecticut, the Housatonic and the Thames rivers, where they once abounded. The experiments with shad resulted in a rapid and positive success. With salmon, however, the processes were much slower and more laborious; but the result was all that had been anticipated by the most sanguine. The experience gained in these triumphs encouraged the Commissioners in the further work of procuring new species fish suited to the larger ponds. So land-locked salmon, a superb fish, was introduced, and it is doing well. Finally the past year, trout have been artificially raised and distributed; and carp, sup plied by Prof. Baird, have been introduced. The trout occupy the smaller brooks scattered among the hills and valleys while the carp finds his home in the swampy and muddy ponds of the lowlands. The Commissioners are confident that within a verv few years these two species will abound in every town in the State. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.