. Addresses delivered at the Convention of the National Shellfisheries Association. Shellfish fisheries. - 91 - and i.]^e di^appccraiice: of i^'i-ny of the. en? 11 sciod I'roM the trsys. These latter ?probably were carried orf by blue cralr;. [-eneral, however, it cnn be said that seed local nources [-rew and survived best. Hortiilities were hif-hest a;;:<)ii£ r-eed fron areac of hifjher salinities such as Lonp; Island Sound the coastal waters of southern areas. These conclusions agree with ooinions bai-ed on practical nxperience. 3R0rtTH OF ;ivi_i^ ;?£: AT r/? locations I2C
. Addresses delivered at the Convention of the National Shellfisheries Association. Shellfish fisheries. - 91 - and i.]^e di^appccraiice: of i^'i-ny of the. en? 11 sciod I'roM the trsys. These latter ?probably were carried orf by blue cralr;. [-eneral, however, it cnn be said that seed local nources [-rew and survived best. Hortiilities were hif-hest a;;:<)ii£ r-eed fron areac of hifjher salinities such as Lonp; Island Sound the coastal waters of southern areas. These conclusions agree with ooinions bai-ed on practical nxperience. 3R0rtTH OF ;ivi_i^ ;?£: AT r/? locations I2C 'CC 60. ^7 S»l»» I - -J ? I ? ? : \ r t \ { ' z Graph No. 7 As long ago as 1801 Ingcrsoll, in his publication "The Oyster Industr;^," wrote: "In general, transplanting young oysters in wa^ smilar to that in vihich they were born, causes then to grov; more rapidly; bi;t if they are carried into different leinperatures and other strange conditions, they will grow sloTjly. Thus, in New York bay, the East River and Newark bay ZQ^d. far outgrows that brought from Virginia. In the Chesapeake, no doubt, the reverse would be ; These vrords penned over seventy years ago see:a equally t/fue today. That great differences in growth occur among the bars of a given loC'iiity also was noted by Ingersoll and it is through i'ecognising these differences a ad the dil'ferences occurring seed thst the Fiost effecti've returns can be obtained from a plantijig program. In s'lmnar;,' of of {!;ro\;th under Maryland i- appears that in rare cases .^a certain bars local seed may i'^mo over three. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original National Shellfisheries Association. Convention; U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Washington : Published for
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