. Annual report of the Commissioners of Fisheries, Game and Forests of the State of New York . d thatall the trout should be allowed to spawn under cover and so the hatchery would have 238 REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONERS OF FISHERIES, GAME AND FORESTS. to be constructed to admit all that came to it at breeding time, and therefore the sizeof a hatchery to be erected would have to be based upon the number of trout likely tovisit it. The hatchery that is 400 feet long will accommodate 500 or 600 breedingtrout at one time (as a matter of fact Mr. Thompson tells me that one year he thinksnot less than
. Annual report of the Commissioners of Fisheries, Game and Forests of the State of New York . d thatall the trout should be allowed to spawn under cover and so the hatchery would have 238 REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONERS OF FISHERIES, GAME AND FORESTS. to be constructed to admit all that came to it at breeding time, and therefore the sizeof a hatchery to be erected would have to be based upon the number of trout likely tovisit it. The hatchery that is 400 feet long will accommodate 500 or 600 breedingtrout at one time (as a matter of fact Mr. Thompson tells me that one year he thinksnot less than 1,000 spawning trout were admitted to the house, and they were mixedtwo and three year old fish, and with this number the gravel beds did not appear to beunduly crowded), and they should produce 125,000 to 175,000 fry if trout of all agesfrom wild waters are admitted, a sufficient number if the survivors are planted to keepup the stock in any preserve that I know of in this State, when the waters are fishedonly as preserved waters are ordinarily fished. A. N. CHENEY, State Fish REFLECTIONS ON TROUT WATER.
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