New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1884-01-21
THE STATE FISHERIES.
PRODUCING NOVEL VARIETIES or TROCT-rITE NJ
uATCfrERY

PRODUCING NOVEL VARIETIES OF TR0CT-FHB NEW
HATCHERY.
Seth Green, the Superintendent of the State
Fishery Commission has given the following information
TO TIE TRIBUNE:
"The most prominent improvement at the New-York
State Hatchery during he past few months is the erection
OF new hatchins hOuSe. 1t il twO-SOry frame build
ing forty feet wide by tysix feet loa containing fifty
batchipgtrou,hs and nine Holton hltchng0oxes, cap
able OF matching about fifteen millions OF front SPAWN IT
is substantial building SIDED up with what Is known as
German siding and painted stone color with red trim
mings Compared with our former hatchery It Is man
sion. Part of our old hatchery was the structure in
which / began my first struggles with hsn
culture twenty years ago, and a. 1t
WAS never very strong, it is great
wonder that it bed together long IS IL did The in-
proyeuen Is noted with great pleasure by visitors to our
establishment
"Among other Improvements Il the successful proluc
ton Of a fish, and It appears 10 he as much variety
BY itself as either OF its parents The fish to which refer
"a hybrid cross between the brook trout and salmon
trout. We have the direct cross seven years old Al
though they showed from the very first the distinctive
markings OF both parents they did not develop the YER
million spots OF the brook trout until five years old
They now weigh nearly five pounds and possess all the
functions for reproduction, and produced as healthy
Young IA either of their parents. have crossed them
sin further by using the hybrid and brook trout
which makes them tTee-fourths brook trout.
These showed the vermlliOn spots % the
brook trout al two years They all have the yellow spots
OF the salmon trout more less They very strong,
hardy al and ofS,r much moro resistance during the
nroras of taking spawn than either OF their parents
and are rstcass table fish. few of them succeeded
in getting out of our ponds and went down our stream
and grew IN That would show that they would make a
GOOD fOr large streams, and have no doubt that they
Will make good sh for both river ana lakes. They mate
and make their The same crook trout and inpreg-
nate as good percentage The thiee-iouhs brook trout
and ouefOurth salmon trout are 0nehaB larger than the
brook trout of the same age .
Recently | took the spawn from the thTee-tOrths
and yitalzcd u with the male brook trout,
which makes them seyencightls brook trout presume
that il will he hard to distinguish them nom the
regular brook trout look forward with great interest
TO whether they show points oil the SALMON trout
am OF the opinion that they Will. We have cross be-
old which is male Both the male and female posse 50
thc ans reproduction but have never been able
to vitaze them either With themselves or other hsh
They are not q perfectly formed fish .
experiments In hyDrdiZlng take only small pOr-
ton of our attention. We are increasing or stock OF
brook trout California trout McCloud river trout aud
salmon trout and also look closely % the large ana
smamouthed black bass, perch bulheads, etc. in sea
The Adirondack has been stocked extensively with
salmon trout, brook trout California trout ana bass The
quantity OF young fry into the billions mat the re-
sus have been all that could have been desired Is proved
bv the fact that receive repeated applications year
after nom the places There Is no other way 10
keep up the supply except TO continue aided by well
organized corps OF protectors, appointed with re-
gard their qualifications by the Governor and controlled
Nv the Fish Commissioners have the best for
preservation and protection we have yet had anu IN or
that the people may derive the full benefits from the
work OF the Commission protection and prodacuOh ust
2 band IN hand.
desire to extend invitation TO all 10 visit works
at Caledonia Y. will guarantee thepl tho hhest hsD
display ill., the world.