. Annual report . s fishing 154 quarts 1903, 5 nets fishing 25Ii quarts 1905, 4 nets fishing 1^>9h quarts 1906, 4 nets fishing 94 quarts In 1904 no work was done at Canandaigua lake because the expensewas greater than the yield warranted. Foreman Winchester furnishes the following records of whitefish eggstaken in Big Clear and Little Clear lakes: Big Clear 42,000 eggs 19°3 5°4<000 eggs 1904 2 ,667 ,000 eggs 1905 2,310,000 eggs 1906 462,000 eggs 200 TWELFTH ANNUAL REPORT OF THE Little Clear Lake. 19011902 1904 !9°51906 15,506,000 eggs 13,818,000 eggs 11,718,000 eggs 6,384,000 e
. Annual report . s fishing 154 quarts 1903, 5 nets fishing 25Ii quarts 1905, 4 nets fishing 1^>9h quarts 1906, 4 nets fishing 94 quarts In 1904 no work was done at Canandaigua lake because the expensewas greater than the yield warranted. Foreman Winchester furnishes the following records of whitefish eggstaken in Big Clear and Little Clear lakes: Big Clear 42,000 eggs 19°3 5°4<000 eggs 1904 2 ,667 ,000 eggs 1905 2,310,000 eggs 1906 462,000 eggs 200 TWELFTH ANNUAL REPORT OF THE Little Clear Lake. 19011902 1904 !9°51906 15,506,000 eggs 13,818,000 eggs 11,718,000 eggs 6,384,000 eggs 3,969,000 eggs 3 , 908, 000 eggs Frostfish. This is a New England name for one of the lesser whitefishes, whichis also sometimes styled the round whitefish, menominee whitefish or is an excellent food fish, attaining sometimes to the weight of two Fulton Chain hatchery is in the vicinity of important frostfish lakes,and the eggs of the fish are secured from November to December. Foreman. FROSTFISH Burke, of Old Forge, had varying success in various lakes of the FultonChain. Up to November 13th, First Lake furnished 400,000 eggs. Thirdand Fourth lakes, up to November 19th, gave poor results. On First lakethree nights fishing were lost on account of ice. The lake froze over wherethe fish were spawning, and the men could not get to the grounds. BigMoose lake, which contains a very large race of frostfish, proved a good eggs were taken there up to the end of December in fair numbers. InThird lake nearly all the fish taken were females, and not enough maleswere caught to fertilize the eggs. Lake Trout. The principal supply of lake trout eggs was obtained in October atOwen Sound, Lake Michigan. Thirteen hundred and sixty quarts were FOREST, FISH AXD GAME COMMISSIONER. 201 brought to Caledonia November i, 1906. by Foreman Redband. Owingto the stormy weather during the egg taking season and to transportationinjuries the percentage of loss in these
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