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= Mullet Fisheries of the Saltoa Sea. j i t f Developing a profitable fishing in- j, dustry, and marketing ocean food fish t from a brine-pickled pool of constant- ? ly varying salinity and water levels,1 s far below the level of the oceans and in the midst of a blazing desert, is an c accomplishment of man that is worthy of attention. This newest of American fisheries, which has recently com- * manded the attention of both state ^ and Federal scientists, is in the Salton , ^ Sea of southern California, where the industry has grown up under some of ? the most adverse ana extraordinary ^ conditions existing in any fishing en- ^ terprise. The Salton Sea is one of the most mysterious of all the world's inland j * brine pools. With its surface at this j writing 257 ft. below ocean 'evel. and * its waters at times approaching six- | s fold the salinity of sea water, it has often been termed the Dead Sea of * America. It is the lowest body of j 1 water on the face of the western hemi-;* sphere, and the lowest on earth with ; * the exception of the Dead Sea of 11 Palestine. Little is known of the fish life of * the Salton Sea prior to the last break o in the Colorado River dikes. It is def- j s initely known, however, that at the r time the sea was something like six 1 times as salty as ocean water, and J t this fact alone would have precluded F the possibility of fish living in its ? waters. In 1905, the river overflowed r its banks, cutting two channels to the v Salton Sea which are now known as i the New and Alamo rivers. The flood t carried 160,000,000 cu. ft. of water v which it emptied into the Salton Sea, s freshening the water, raising its level, o and greatly extending its area. t Several years after the flooding of t the Salton Sea, the salt water mullet, n a desirable food fish, of the identical o pedes found in the Gulf of Califor- r nia, and other Pacific waters from tl Monterey southward, made its appear- o ance in the sea. Two theories are ad- c v&nced by scientists to account for o the occurrence of the fish. The first w is that they had swum from the Gulf e f California into the fresh waters r of the Colorado River, and were a carried down into the Salton Sea by tl the flood. This theory, however, does a not seem acceptable, inasmuch as the d fishermen declare there is no authen- p tic record of the salt-water mullet e iwimming up into fresh water v streams. The second theory, and the S more plausible one, is that the Salton * Sea was stocked with fish by the white I ft pelicans. 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Isolated mountain lakes are mown to ahve been thus stocked with rout, and probably the fish of the >alton sea were carried there in the ame manner. In a short time a considerable colony of fishermen began to appear on he shores of the Salton Sea. Ex>eriments by several large packing >lants at Los Angeles with the canting of mullet also met with a high legree of success. Due to the terrific ummer heat of the Salton basin, the emperatures often going as high as 25 degrees, the fish are iced aboard he fishing boats as soon as they are aken from the water. The fishermen rork in canopy-topped boats, and in he water as much as possible for the turpose of keeping cool. The fish tre landed on Mullet Island, where he receding sea has made possible he building of a motor road connectng it with the land. They are then rucked to Xiland, on the southern 'acir'ic line, for shipment to file canting plants and markets. Just what the future of the Salon Sea fishing industry will be, no >ne can say until an accurate water urvey and analysis of the water is nade from samples taken from va ious portions of the lake and exending over a period of years. At iresent, the sea has a maximum lepth of about 45 ft., and it is al__?11 i? v<iuy WCU &UUVIU inav uic oainuvv aries at different depths as well as n different localities according to he distance from sources of freshrater supply. If the Salton Sea hould ever again attain the degree f salinity that it possesed prior to he flood of 1905, it is probable that he fishing industry would be autolatically terminated by the perishing f the fish. The fishermen and old esidents about the sea, however, scolf he idea that the sea will ever go dry, r even recede to the point of inrasing salinity beyond the endurance f the fish. They believe that the rater is now holding its own against vaporation losses. Last year the sea eceded 4% ft, and then without any pparent reason rose again 2 ft. With he constantly increasing irrigated rea of the Imperial Valley and the evelopment of additional irrigation rojects along the Colorado River, an ver-increasing volume of over-flow rater will be drained into the Salton lea to freshen its waters and mainain its level.?Popular Mechanics lagazine. Help your friend in the contest by ubscribing for The Record now. illy well yon * Oil to its oiling syster and ued acquaintanceship. L JN'T ' dealer today and have your crank <1 with the proper grade of "CRt-?N ind result* will positively amase you. POWER, SMOOTHER PERFORM5PONSE, and immensely improved ARTICULAR. Not a temporary i: it'll stick as long as yoa u*? "Green > more to berin with iss in th* end wall-known dealersi KXngntree, S. C Lake City, C C. Greelyville, S. C Andrews, S. C ittery Co. Kingstree, S. C. Exnress Office. 1 Lobile, Farm Lighting legraph batteries reged. We are distribe Battery. 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