. Annual report of the Commissioners of Fisheries, Game and Forests of the State of New York . NO. 3 -HEAD OF LAKE LAMPREY. NO, 4.—MOUTH OF LAKE LAMPREY. appear to greatly prefer such a place to a bare sand-bank, doubtless because theirfood is more abundant where the finely comminuted organic material is also depositedwith the mud and sand. Along the Susquehanna River the Sand Lampreys, as the larvae are there called,are in great demand. They are taken from the sand with shovels and used quiteextensively for fish bait. When a shovelful of wet sand and mud containing theyoung lampreys is thrown
. Annual report of the Commissioners of Fisheries, Game and Forests of the State of New York . NO. 3 -HEAD OF LAKE LAMPREY. NO, 4.—MOUTH OF LAKE LAMPREY. appear to greatly prefer such a place to a bare sand-bank, doubtless because theirfood is more abundant where the finely comminuted organic material is also depositedwith the mud and sand. Along the Susquehanna River the Sand Lampreys, as the larvae are there called,are in great demand. They are taken from the sand with shovels and used quiteextensively for fish bait. When a shovelful of wet sand and mud containing theyoung lampreys is thrown upon the bank, they can be seen wriggling, to find con-cealment, like pink and white worms of various sizes. It is singular that the linefishermen of central New York have not generally learned the excellency of this kind FISHERIES, GAME AND FORESTS. 203 of bait. While it would be quite impossible to hope to exterminate them by digging*up all the young lampreys in the sand, their common use by fishermen would beeffective in reducing their numbers. Some writers have called the immature s
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