. Annual report of the Commissioners of Fisheries, Game and Forests of the State of New York . was raised, and others that the shad did not passafter the dam was erected until the fishways were constructed. Seventy-five miles further up-stream, I found, upon questioning disinterested wit-nesses, that shad did not run to that point after the construction of the dam, as theydid formerly, until the fishways were built, when the shad run was resumed as in theyears before the dam was erected.* * Since the above was written I have met Mr. J. R. Peck, Tax Agent of the Delaware and HudsonCompany, who
. Annual report of the Commissioners of Fisheries, Game and Forests of the State of New York . was raised, and others that the shad did not passafter the dam was erected until the fishways were constructed. Seventy-five miles further up-stream, I found, upon questioning disinterested wit-nesses, that shad did not run to that point after the construction of the dam, as theydid formerly, until the fishways were built, when the shad run was resumed as in theyears before the dam was erected.* * Since the above was written I have met Mr. J. R. Peck, Tax Agent of the Delaware and HudsonCompany, who told me that he had seen a solid mass of shad in the Lackawaxen fishways on thePennsylvania side of the river during the shad run, the shad passing through as rapidly as thecrowding of a great number of fish at the entrance of the fishway would permit. Further, I desire toput on record that Mr. Peck informed me that the shad did not use the fishway on the New York sideof the river, but all passed up over the dam on the Pennsylvania side, and his statement was basedon personal FISHERIES, GAME AND FORESTS. 227 The interior of an enclosed fishway should be large enough for a man to passthrough for inspection and repairs or cleaning, and be constructed as simply as possibleand at the same time permit it to perform its office, that fish may pass through with-out encountering complicated details of construction to confuse them and which servechiefly to catch drift that clogs the buckets and stops, and renders the fishwayuseless for the purpose for which it was built. The slope of a fishway must also beconsidered carefully in its relation to the height of the dam. The earlier fishwayswere built with a rise of but one foot in from ten to sixteen, and one dam twenty-ninefeet high had an inclined fishway 450 feet long, and it was calculated that a fishin passing through it would have to travel 1,500 feet in following the devious channelcaused by the arms or buckets projecti
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