Report of the Bureau of FisheriesU.S. Government Printing Office, 1905 |
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Pagina 11 - To prosecute investigations on the subject (of the diminution of valuable fishes) with the view of ascertaining whether any and what diminution in the number of the food-fishes of the coast and the lakes of the United .States has taken place ; and, if so, to what causes the same is due ; and also whether any and what protective, prohibitory, or precautionary measures should be adopted in the premises, and to report upon the same to Congress.
Pagina 155 - ... cap brought down over the top. Revolving rapidly as it goes, the can is carried until the machine has revolved 180 degrees, then is released and rolls out upon a table. In some canneries the grease is removed by steam applied in the same manner as the water. One of the latest improvements is cleaning the cans by a cold-air blast which strikes directly on the top edge. A set of brushes against which the cans revolve is another method. After being washed or wiped, as the case may be, the cans pass...
Pagina 178 - Reports — on the Fishes, Reptiles, and Birds; the Herbaceous Plants and Quadrupeds; the Insects Injurious to Vegetation ; and the Invertebrate Animals of Massachusetts. Published agreeably to an Order of the Legislature, by the Commissioners on the Zoological and Botanical Survey of the State.
Pagina 437 - It shall not be lawful for any person to sell or offer for sale, or have in his -possession, except alive, any of the young fish mentioned in section one of this act "SEC.
Pagina 9 - The commissioner may take or cause to be taken at all times, in the waters of the seacoast of the United States, where the tide ebbs and flows, and also in the waters of the lakes, such fish or specimens thereof as may in his judgment, from time to time, be needful or proper for the Syllabus. conduct of his duties, any law, custom, or usage of any State to the contrary notwithstanding.
Pagina 638 - American fishes. A popular treatise upon the game and food fishes of North America with especial reference to habits and methods of capture.
Pagina 583 - ... and that he upon that occasion caused his pond to be let dry : and I say, of seventy or eighty carps, only found five or six in the said pond, and those very sick and lean, and with every one a frog sticking so fast on the 1 The author of the
Pagina 166 - And is it not pretty sport, to pull up two pence, six pence, and twelve pence, as fast as you can hale and veare a line? He is a very bad fisher, cannot kill in one day with his hooke and line, one, two, or three hundred Cods...
Pagina 544 - ... follows: 1. Fecundity and adaptability to the processes of artificial propagation. 2. Living largely on a vegetable diet. 3. Hardiness in all stages of growth. 4. Adaptability to conditions unfavorable to any equally palatable American fish and to very varied climates. 5. Rapid growth. 6. Hannlessness in its relation to other fishes. 7. Ability to populate waters to their greatest extent.
Pagina 532 - Cyprinu» carpió npeculu.ru, the mirror carp; thus named on account of the extraordinarily large scales, which run along the sides of the body in three or four rows, the rest of the tody being bare.