. Annual report of the Commissioners of Fisheries, Game and Forests of the State of New York . eggs 204 REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONERS OF FISHERIES, GAME AND FORESTS. and little fish measuring several inches in length, while they often eat holes intolarger fish. This large water beetle often leaves the water, perhaps for a littleexercise. Whether they fly during daylight I cannot say, but I have seen andsecured them near an electric light located within a short distance of a stream. We do not see and therefore do not know the full extent of the depredationscontinually going on around us, but when
. Annual report of the Commissioners of Fisheries, Game and Forests of the State of New York . eggs 204 REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONERS OF FISHERIES, GAME AND FORESTS. and little fish measuring several inches in length, while they often eat holes intolarger fish. This large water beetle often leaves the water, perhaps for a littleexercise. Whether they fly during daylight I cannot say, but I have seen andsecured them near an electric light located within a short distance of a stream. We do not see and therefore do not know the full extent of the depredationscontinually going on around us, but when we stop to realize the fruits of our laborand patient expectation, we are astonished by the scarcity of fish and often inclined toplace the blame where it does not belong. Natures checks upon over-productionare sometimes more effective than mans most ingenious devices for the legitimatecapture or legal destruction of fish, but at the present state of the fishing waters inNew York it is safe to say that we could get along without natures checks. J. ANNIN, Jr., Superintendent of A PIKE AT ITS BEST. Tl>e Fisheries of E)a^e Ontario in 1S97.* By JOHN N. COBB, Field Agent, U. S. Fish Commission. Jg&y HF following pages present the results ofan investigation of the fisheries of LakeOntario for the year 1897, the workhaving been taken up in December, afterthe fishing season had ended. No attentionwas paid to the wholesale trade, which isunimportant, nor to the import trade inCanadian fish which is carried on at CapeVincent, Oswego and North Fair Haven. The principal fishing grounds of the lakeare in Chaumont, Black River and Hen-derson Bays, in Jefferson county, and MexicoBay, in Oswego county, in which watersall kinds of netting are allowed. The onlyother regions of importance are off SodusPoint, in Wayne county, and off the shoresof Orleans and Niagara counties. In thislatter region no netting is allowed withinone mile of the shore and as a result onlygill nets and s
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