. Commercial fisheries review. Fisheries; Fish trade. The Department has been increas- ing its shell-planting program each year, hav'ng planted 2. 1 million bushels in 1954. This year the goal is mil- lion. Planting began in the middle of April and already well over 1 million bushels have been put overboard in strategic lo- cations. Shelling crews were hustling to plant the rest of the quota by July 25-- the date set by scientists as the optimum time for oyster spat to catch on the shells. The Tidewater Fisheries Department will take up many of its seed oysters in the fall and replant the
. Commercial fisheries review. Fisheries; Fish trade. The Department has been increas- ing its shell-planting program each year, hav'ng planted 2. 1 million bushels in 1954. This year the goal is mil- lion. Planting began in the middle of April and already well over 1 million bushels have been put overboard in strategic lo- cations. Shelling crews were hustling to plant the rest of the quota by July 25-- the date set by scientists as the optimum time for oyster spat to catch on the shells. The Tidewater Fisheries Department will take up many of its seed oysters in the fall and replant them, but the shell planting is considered of greatest impor- tance because it is less expensive and requires only one operation. Massachusetts NEW CONNECTICUT RIVER SHAD FISHWAY: Sea-run Atlantic shad have been unable to reach their ancestral spawning grounds in the middle Connecticut River for 107 years due to the pres- ence of a large power dam at Holyoke, Mass. Various "Rube Goldberg" devices have been tried in past years to sur- mount this obstacle. The Hol- yoke Water Power Company has been especicdly active and is to be commended for its per- sistent efforts to help solve this important fishery problem in the face of more or less constant ^ Shad abuse. (Alosa sapidissima) The success that has been achieved at last is the more significant since the fish passage device at Holyoke--a fish trap and elevator system--is the only fishway which has accommodated large numbers of shad on the Atlantic Coast. The venture, undertaken in cooperation with the U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service, is considered highly successful. The Service reports that 4, 902 shad were passed over Holyoke Dam in a little over a month during the past spawning North Atlantic Fisheries Exploration and Gear Research FIRST BLUEFIN TUNA CAUGHT IN NORTH ATLANTIC WITH POLE-FISHING GEAR: Approximately 2, 500 pounds of bluefin tuna were caught August 16 about 20 miles south of Martha's Vineyard, Mass.,
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