Progress in Biological Inquiries; Report of the Division of Scientific Inquiry for the Fiscal Year 1920-1924, '26-'28, '32
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Progress in Biological Inquiries; Report of the Division of Scientific Inquiry for the Fiscal Year 1920-1924, '26-'28, '32

Progress in Biological Inquiries; Report of the Division of Scientific Inquiry for the Fiscal Year 1920-1924, '26-'28, '32


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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: or become attached to it in such a way as not to be removable by the ordinary process of washing. In this connection reference may be made to the studies of the food of young fishes conducted by the same investigator and applying to 18 species of fish of the Woods Hole region. THE OYSTER. The eastern oyster supports the most valuable fishery possessed by any country and based upon a single species; but, important as the oyster industry is in contribution to food supply as well as in its part in the economic life of the Nation, its future can be viewed only with keen anxiety. For some years the industry has been manifestly declining. In past times its chief seats have been on the south shores of New England and New York and in the Chesapeake Bay. During a long period the yield of the Chesapeake has gradually fallen away because of the depletion of natural beds and the misfortunes which have attended all attempts to establish a proper legal basis for the development of a great oyster farming industry. In waters of the vicinity of Long Island oyster farming has long been established on a large scale, but in recent years, and because of conditions which are not yet fully understood, there has been a notable failure of the setting of seed. The planting industry now depends to a very considerable extent upon the importation of seed oysters from distant points; and the expense and the uncertainties are such that leases of oyster bottoms are continually being given up, with consequent loss of revenue to States, as well as diminution in the production of a valuable article of food. The problem of the failure of set has therefore become one of great concern to State Governments as well as to the Nation. It is, however, one of great complexity and may well receive the best attentio...


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  • ISBN-13: 9780217037358
  • Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com
  • Publisher Imprint: Rarebooksclub.com
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 346
  • Spine Width: 18 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0217037356
  • Publisher Date: 14 Oct 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 617 gr


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