April 12, 2024
Fisheries, Fish Farming, Fish Culture Hatcheries cm339
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Fisheries, Fish Farming, Fish Culture cm339* "Progress in Fish Culture," by Fred Mather. This is an original article from Century Magazine, Vol. XXVII, 6, April, 1884, 14 pp. (loose) , 25 engraved illustrations. 6 1/4" x 9 1/4". About The AuthorMATHER, Fred, pisciculturist, born in Albany, New York, in August, 1833. In 1854 he became interested in the lead-mines of Potosi, Wisconsin, and afterward hunted and trapped in the Bad Axe country in that state. Here he learned enough of the Chippewa language to become interpreter to the government survey in northern Minnesota. During the political troubles in Kansas he served under General James Lane, and was one of Jennison's "Jay-hawkers." He enlisted in the 113th New York regiment in 1862, and became 1st lieutenant two years later. At the close of the civil war he took a clerkship in the live-stock yards near Albany. In 1868 he bought a farm at Honeoye Falls, New York, and began to hatch fish of various kinds. When the United States fish commission was formed in 1872 he was sent for by Professor Spencer F. Baird to hatch shad for the Potomac river. In 1875 he established hatcheries at Lexington and Blacksburg for the state of Virginia. A year earlier he had hatched the first sea-bass and graylings. After several vain attempts to transport salmon-eggs to Europe, he devised a refrigerator-box,
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