A Curious Salamander

Abstract

THE artificial propagation of food fishes is an important part of the work of the United States Fish Commission, and for this purpose it has a number of hatcheries or “stations” scattered throughout the Union. At each of these stations especial attention is given to the rearing of the fishes best adapted to the region in which that particular station is placed, as it would be useless to breed salmon or trout for the warm, sluggish streams of the South, or to put bass and carp into the cold, swift rivers of New England or of Michigan. The sea stations are devoted to the study of marine zoology, and the propagation of shad, mackerel, cod, lobsters and similar organisms that cannot be bred in fresh water; while hatcheries have been put on the banks of several lakes at which whitefish, landlocked salmon, lake trout and the like are reared.