Pollution of Navigable Waters Author:United States Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Mr. ????. Yea, sir; you made a point a few moments ago about destroying the mosquitoes in north Jersey. We have a mosquito commission in New Jersey that has appe... more »aled to the merchants for the extermination of mosquitoes, and they point us to the fact that they have exterminated mosquitoes in north Jersey by this process on the beaches, when, as a matter of fact, it is only these poisons that are admitted into the water of the beaches, which kills all other matter, shellfish larvée, finny fish larvae as well. That is where the natural spawning grounds of the finny fish as well as the shellfish are. The shellfish can not run away from this menace; it has to stay there at its home and is destroyed. The shellfish in the neighborhood of north Jersey waters are being destroyed, while the mosquito extermination is in south Jersey, where we do not have so much pollution, on the beaches they are mak- ing,them mosquito proof by exterminating them. Mr. Layton. That is where we get them over on the Delaware side. Mr. Michaelson. They do not fly that far. Mr. ????. It is trade waste from the factor)' that is doing most damage to the shellfish. We come down into Delaware River and Bay and then we get oil, although the other trade wastes have affected all of our oyster grounds. We have lost about six miles of our natural oyster grounds in the trade wastes gradually working down the river. Some gentleman spoke of the tankers and oil-burning vessels discharging their water ballast and the bilge water and various other waters that contain the oil outride of the 3-mile limit, while, as a matter of fact, in the Delaware Bay where we have had over 30,000 acres of oyster grounds under leases, they are discharging the oil after they enter the Delaware capes. Our captains of our guard boats have ...« less