Raleigh, June 1—Edenton on Albemarle Sound is one of the only two points in the United States where the federal government is successfully propagating striped bass, shad and rockfish, according to the word just made public by one of the state departments here, received from the Bureau of Fisheries, Washington. The other point at which the propagation of these fish is being carried on is at Bryan’s Point station, Potomac River.
This information was contained in a letter replying to an inquiry as to why the propagation of these fish in the Roanoke River had been discontinued. Shad and rockfish have become very scarce owing to the dumping of waste matter from mills and sewage from cities into the rivers, the letter states, and state laws in many places have failed to protect many varieties of fish, from the fishermen, who have aided in nearly exterminating this species. The propagation of striped bass and shad was carried on for many years at Weldon, N.C., in the Roanoke River, but was discontinued in 1923 owing to the pollution of the river, and Edenton is now the chief center of this activity.
From the front page of the Concord Daily Tribune, June 1, 1926
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