Hauling the Largest Shad Seine in the World.
Spawn-taking operations on the Potomac River. Trying to save from extinction one of America's finest-flavored food fishes.
Courtesy of the U. S. Bureau of Fisheries.
"Good! Going to college?"
The boy looked at his father.
"I had thought of sending him to Brown," he said, "since he got this Fisheries idea. One of my friends told me that it was an excellent university for biology."
"Do it!" said the Commissioner. "Send him to college in the winter, let him work with us in the vacation. That'll give him four summers' training with us. When he comes out of college he ought to be worth something to the Bureau. But don't start and then give up."
"Colin won't do that," his father said, then added pointedly, "I'll see to it that he doesn't."
"Very well," said the Commissioner, "that's settled." He rang a bell, and a messenger appeared at the door. "Ask Dr. Crafts to step here a minute if he is disengaged. Dr. Crafts," he continued, turning to Major Dare, "is perhaps one of the most valuable men we have on the Bureau. Oh, by the way, boy, when do you want to start?"
"Right away, sir, if possible," Colin replied.