New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1894-12-03
REFEREES APPOINTEN
Supreme Court.
Ry Truax. J.
THE FISH COMMISSIONS WORK
MILLIONS OF FRY DISTRIBUTED.
,xr-Ry DONE By IMPURITIES IN THE WATER:
OF THE BAY AND THE HUDSON RIVER
SHAD AND LOBSTER PROrAGAIION.

INJURY DONE RY IMPURITIES IN THE WATERS
OF THE BAY AND THE HUDSON RIVER
sHAD AND LOBSTER PROPAGATION.
Albany. Dec THE State Commissioners Of Fish
cries have completed their annual report ior 'he
fiscal year ended September 30 last They STATE mat
the output OF FISH during the year just closed was
Increased to exceed by 50 per cent the output OF
the preceding year and the total number OF hsh
fry distributed during the year reached the ehoF-
NOUS number OF 100000. chiefly as follows BROOK
trout 2es2 so; brown trout, $500: California trout
So COO lake trout. 5.iF.ooo; white hsh, bil2'o''
ciscoes l2.M2OOo; muskallonge. 100000: Adiron-
dack frost fish 9ol5 600; pike perch. D. 10000 shad
$4,000: salmon, $3.50: smelt, 2.SB1O tomcods
90 SIC go: lobster 445 i55 black bass $780, yearing
salmon 2sO; land-locked salmon. SS.'"
A large part OF all the FISH Matched during the
past year was food fish. and this was done IN
response 20 the almost unanimous desire 81 the
people Of the State III" propagation OF the game
fishes so-called- brook. brown and California trout
salmon and black bass-was about az usual TOT the
last three four years amounting to about ooo'-
%. the large increase being in the number or
food FISH Matched. the total huV'De' Oh Iooi IL"
reaching l3o,T10C0.
The work Of Matching Holsters at Cold Spring
Harbor was more successful than last year. al
though the scarcity o. eggs prevented the superh-
tendent Of that hatchery from Matching as many as
he anticipated The Commissioners believe this 10
he important
popular of crustacea. Is becoming scdrcer every
wear The work Of Matching Holsters the past sea-
son has been attended with more success than that
| In any previous year nearly 90 young ioos'eis
having been planted In the waters OF Long lsIahd
Sound. The consumption Of the LOBSTER having De-
come so general throughout the country. ana the
waters having been 20 greatly overished for them'
the Commissioners believe that unless means are
taken through artificial propagation and proper
legislation to protect them they VIII ne hhoa'i
Injury thai none but the rich enjoy. The State
should increase the legal SIZE from nine ~ zen zen
inches in length, that Holsters might reach me
age OF maturity before being used for food IL Is
| found necessary to depend FOR eggs enurey upon
Consequence the supply available at the Cold spring
arbor hatchery i o Snle Hnck ea from Shcn it is
hoped, great many lobster eggs VIII DE op-
| tanned .,,,.,,o ,rcrease over
| the preceding year and was done upon entlrely
s ss ' kTer eyer for .se last i've
very unsatisfactory and It was ae,er' EsS C ts
nnsssnna River It has been impossible Of late years
uIsts supply Of eggs from the Hudson River The
COMMISSIONS obtained from the Cnted states p rysp
Sicooo shad fry. at an expense not exceeding the
of sGs ry iGT from aH eggs
River The eject the supply OF s h ., sne
River With deieterious substances has heretofore
been noticed This season the Coihmissome.s ,hnv
| MI O all shad fishermen WHOSE w >
a ouid secure betw een sandy Hook and Albany
with the object o obtaining all INA phe
| letter thrty-five replied and said among, ONE
things that the decrease in the supply OF sna
| g. caused by deeterious substances In the water,
! Some people have mentioned TO the Comnssohe, >
in the last season that they have detected AZ u
believe this resulted from the presence OF imp"e &c
| matter in the water. TO keep up the supply y.
had with the increasing number OF shad hshet
snen who supply the growing demand for TINS va,
,,ahie food fish vigorous and protective IessIa.io
..ir needed The Commissioners call the atteh'.n
Of the Legislature to this sub1ec, nma a1n
sarv poliaton OF the waters OF our bay ana VI '"e
! Hudson River. .-,..,o,nrs IN stock the
undson with salmon cannot be entirely successIu "
Mill there Is a thorough system OF adequate "s ISL
aava afYording access to the head waters Oh tns
rt"sr There must be some way for them 70 reacn
| The head waters Of the river where 'hey can
PThe Commissioners desire to say that they are
| o,nnsed fo the establishment OF any more hatcn
| rr}es They have already all that they can pos
| shIv use 10 advantage.