. Annual report of the Commissioners of Fisheries, Game and Forests of the State of New York . new food lead me to believe that the cost ofproduction can be materially reduced. Experiments in the mode of hatching and rearing young of some varieties of fishpreviously considered impossible to raise have been successful. I refer to the hatchingand rearing in confinement of the red-throat trout. About 100,000 fingerlings of thisvariety are now at the Caledonia and Pleasant Valley Hatcheries. The eggs weretaken from the adult fish confined in the hatchery ponds. We have also been successful in hatc
. Annual report of the Commissioners of Fisheries, Game and Forests of the State of New York . new food lead me to believe that the cost ofproduction can be materially reduced. Experiments in the mode of hatching and rearing young of some varieties of fishpreviously considered impossible to raise have been successful. I refer to the hatchingand rearing in confinement of the red-throat trout. About 100,000 fingerlings of thisvariety are now at the Caledonia and Pleasant Valley Hatcheries. The eggs weretaken from the adult fish confined in the hatchery ponds. We have also been successful in hatching mascalonge eggs by the glass-jarmethod, and the rearing of the young fry to the length of four and four and one-halfinches in three months. It has also been found by actual work and experiment that our inland lakes canfurnish whitefish eggs in sufficient numbers for the restocking of Lake Ontario andinland waters with this valuable food fish. Over 20,000,000 of whitefish were hatchedand planted during the past year, and the supply of eggs were obtained from inlandwaters of the FISHERIES, GAME AND FORESTS. I I 7 Previous to the fall of 1890, all of the whitefish eggs hatched by New York StateFish Commissions were obtained from Lakes Ontario and Michigan, in November andDecember of each year, but on account of storms and scarcity of fish in recent years,the number obtained, was always very uncertain, and the expenses were sure to beheavy. It is seldom that storms of sufficient strength occur to interfere with our workof collecting eggs on our inland lakes, so that we can now always calculate onobtaining whitefish eggs at a reasonable expense, and as the fishing grounds are withintwo or three hours from the hatcheries, there is but slight loss in transportation,whereas, by the old method it was often a month after the eggs were taken beforethey arrived at our hatcheries. At present it would be almost impossible to collectunder the most favorable circumstances 5,000,00
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