Identifier: americanaunivers14newy (find matches)
Title: The Americana; a universal reference library, comprising the arts and sciences, literature, history, biography, geography, commerce, etc., of the world
Year: 1908 (1900s)
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Subjects: Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Publisher: New York : Scientific American Compiling Dept.
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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gaged in thei ndustry; the apparatus of all kinds employed was valued at about $90,000, and included 500 nets having a total length of 137,500 fathoms, and S46 boats and vessels of all kinds. Besides the 2,428,616 pounds of flesh valued at $124,440, the 10.363 sturgeons caught yielded 1,948 kegs or 262.974 pounds of caviar, valued at $70,738. In 1899 the fisheries of the Pacific coast of California and Oregon produced 295,344 pounds, valued at $15,333. During the same year the sturgeon fisheries of the Great Lakes yielded 1,129,348 pounds of flesh valued at $81,085 and 47,470 pounds of caviar valued at $30,510. The sturgeon fisheries of all parts of the country are in serious danger of being destroyed, but the above data indicate that the evils of overfishing, etc., have been most harmful in the Delaware River. Several attempts to propagate the sturgeon artificially have been made by the Fish Commission, but the peculiar difficulties resulting from the methods of the fisheries and the mode of repro
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RUSSELL SILRC. IS STURGEON BAY —STURT dtjction of this fish have up to the present proved insurmountable. Consult: Jordan and Evermann, Fishes of North and Middle America, Vol. I. (Washington 1896); Ryder, Sturgeons and Sturgeon Industries of the Eastern United States (Washington 1896); Cobb, Sturgeon Fishery of the Delaware River, Rep. U. S. Fish Commission for 1899. Sturgeon Bay, Wis., city, county seat of Door County; on Sturgeon Bay and on the canal which connects Green Bay with Lake Michigan by a short route. It is about 40 miles northeast of the city of Green Bay. The bay is a good harbor about eight miles long and from one to three miles wide. The city is in an agricultural region, formerly an extensive lumbering region. There is yet (1904) a large amount of lumbering. Sturgeon Bay exports large quantities of grain and lumber. It has one state bank with a capital of $25,000, and one private bank. Pop. (1890) 2,195; (ipoo) 3,372. Sturgis, sterjis, Julian, English novelist: b. Boston,

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