Report of the Commissioner of Fisheries to the Secretary of Commerce and Labor for the Fiscal Year Ended ...U.S. Government Printing Office, 1909 |
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abundant adults anal Atlantic Ocean bait base of caudal black bass Branch Britton & Brown Brook trout Bureau of Fisheries cannery catch caught central Alaska Chara Chinook salmon chub Connecticut Lakes depth DETAILS OF DISTRIBUTION Devils Lake disposition DISTRIBUTION OF FISH dorsal East eggs feet Fingerlings fins fish FISH AND EGGS-Continued Fish Commission fishermen Fork halibut Harbor hatchery head Humpback inches long Indian Island Lake trout larvæ lateral line lings locality Main Inlet maxillary miles Mill Pond minnow mouth North pack pectoral pickerel Pike perch plankton pond culture Potamogeton pounds Rainbow trout rays reservoir River salted season Second Lake shore smelts snout Sockeye South southeast Alaska spawning species specimens Spring Creek station Steelhead trout streams sucker temperature Third Lake Total tributary Valley Creek vegetation ventral vessels West western Alaska whitefish yearlings Yellow perch young fish
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Sivu 49 - Trout thrives in clear, cold, rapid streams and at the mouths of streams tributary to lakes. In its movements it is swift, and it leaps over obstructions like the Salmon. It feeds usually in the morning and evening, is more active during evening and night, and often lies quietly in deep pools or in the shadow of overhanging bushes and trees for hours at a time. It feeds on insects and their larvae, worms, mollusks and small fishes, and, like its relative, the Rainbow Trout, it is fond of the eggs...
Sivu 29 - That the catch and pack of salmon made in Alaska by the owners of private salmon hatcheries operated in Alaska shall be exempt from all license fees and taxation of every nature at the rate of ten cases of canned salmon' to every one thousand red or king salmon fry liberated, upon the following conditions...
Sivu 49 - ... Missouri, Michigan, . Wisconsin, Nebraska, Colorado, and several other states. This trout has proved to be well adapted to the region east of the Rocky mountains, which has no native black spotted species, though the western streams and lakes contain many forms in a high state of development. Size. Under favorable conditions the brown trout has been credited with a weight of 22 pounds and a length of 35 inches. In New Zealand rivers, where it was introduced with unusual success, it now approximates...
Sivu 6 - The commercial fishes — such as the shad, whitefish, lake trout, pike, perch, cod, etc., hatched in lots of many millions — are necessarily planted as fry. It is customary to distribute them just before the umbilical sac is completely absorbed. Atlantic salmon, landlocked salmon, and various species of trout, in such numbers as the hatchery facilities permit, are reared to fingerlings from 1 to 6 inches in length ; the remainder are distributed as fry.
Sivu 32 - An act for the protection and regulation of the fisheries of Alaska," approved June 26, 1906, it is hereby ordered that until further notice Wood River, a tributary of Nushagak Bay, in the district of Alaska, and the region within 500 yards of the mouth of said Wood River be closed to all commercial fishing, and that all commercial fishing be prohibited in Xushagak River proper.
Sivu 49 - ... intervals during a period of many days in crevices between stones, under projecting roots of trees, and sometimes in nests excavated by the spawning fishes. The parents cover the eggs to some extent with gravel. The hatching period varies according to temperature from 40 to 70 days. Females aged...
Sivu 38 - Color dneky above, often tinged with olivaceous or bluish : sides and below silvery : head dark slaty, usually darker than the body and little spotted ; back, dorsal fin, and tail usually profusely covered with round black...
Sivu 38 - Teeth small, longer on sides of lower jaw than in front; vomerine teeth very few and weak, disappearing in the males. In the males in late summer and fall, the jaws become elongate and distorted, and the anterior teeth much enlarged, as in the related species. The body then becomes deeper, more compressed, and arched at the shoulders, and the color nearly black. Preopercle and opercle strongly convex. Body comparatively robust, its depth greatest...
Sivu 37 - ... consist of small shells and crustaceans. Its food is doubtless similar to that of the Common Whitefish. Anguilla chrysypa Rafinesque. Fresh Water or American Eel. The only reference to this fish as a mollusk eater (noted by the author) is by Kendall and Goldsborough (1908, p. 37). These authors say: " The eel subsists upon almost any kind of animal food. It can and does catch live fish for itself and feeds also upon worms, insect larvae, small mollusks, and not infrequently upon fish eggs when...
Sivu 49 - Moreau found it at an elevation of 7,000 feet in the Pyrenees, and a color variety is native to Northern Algeria in about 37° north latitude. In the United States the Brown Trout has been successfully reared in Colorado at an elevation of nearly 2 miles above sea level ; it is now well established in New York, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Missouri, Michigan. Wisconsin, Nebraska, Colorado, and several other States. This Trout has proved to be well adapted to the region east of the Rocky Mountains, which...