Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1898-09-15
TEN TANKS SENT TO THE CHIP
PEWA FALLS FAIR.
CLOSING UP THE WORK
Supt. Nevin Going to Bayfield, to
Commence Collection of Trout
Eggs for the Winter-Semi-An-
nual Report Gives a Promising
Outlook-Figures on Fish.
Madison. Sent I

state fisheries department is prepar.
Ing to make an exhibit of state fish
at the Northern Wisconsin state
fair which opens at Chippewa Falls
next Tuesday. Ten large fish tank:
have been deposited in the mer
chants exhibit building at the
grounds. The tanks are of plate
glass and will be perched to the
height Of the average human being
SO that the fish may be viewed with
little difficulty. The exhibit will be
made up entirely of Wisconsin fish
including brook, rainbow and blacl
spotted trout and gold fish, and will,
show what is being done at the
state fish works. It will prove one
of the best exhibits of the fair
The fish car was at Green Bay Friday
getting fish for exhibition at the Mil
waukee exposition and Supt. Nevi1
goes to the cream city today. Next
Monday he goes to Bayfield, to com
| mence the collection of trout eggs fol
the winter and will spend the greater
part of the next month in that local
ity.
| Supt. Nevin in his report on the
work of the last six months says ne
believes the fish commission is IN
better position to carry out the work
for which it was organized than at
any other time in its history. The
renort contains many interesting
| figures.
The species of fish and the number
| If each distributed from each hatch
cry was as follows:
Madison hatchery, brook trout, l.
$4,000; rainbow trout 1,OOO,Ooo;
total, 2.572,OOO; Bayfield, hatchery,
wall-eyed pike, 11,3SO,OOO; lake trout,
| 1882. 900; brock trout, 328,5OO; total,
1900, 500: Oshkosh hatchery, wall
eyed pike. 100000; full-grown white
bass from Oshkosh and Winneconne,
2542O: total distribution for 9
months, 6O,6S5,92O.
From the Madison hatchery were
distributed as is shown in the above
table 1872, 900 of the brook and
brown trout varieties, and 100000
rainbow trout. The greater part of
the rainbow trout were planted IN
the large streams or their tributaries
in the north half Of the state. Re
ports received from parties who
PLANTED the fish show that with
hardly an exception, both the brook
and rainbow trout were planted in
good condition in all instances. The
loss of small fry in the Madison
Matching troughs was small; at the
same time the fry was not as strong
and healthy as the fry planted last
year from this hatchery. The fry
placed in the rearing ponds has not
done as well as last year. Actual
count Of the stock Of yearling trout
| (hatch of go, shows 31,S79 brook
trout and 1912 rainbow trout of this
age in ponds to be used for breeding
purposes in the future. There are also
several thousand brown trout, which
it was not thought necessary to
! count. A considerable loss occurred
among the yearling brook trout at
| this hatchery during the month CT
/ April. This was at the time the snow
was melting and may have been due
| to the snow water. There had never
! before been a loss Of this kind at
that season of the year. During the
| two weeks that the epidemic lasted l.
72O fish died
| There was also quite a loss OF
yearling brook trout at the Bayfield,
hatchery. The cause of the loss was
evidently the same as the cause OF
! the loss at the Madison hatchery. 1t
occurred at the time the snow water
was coming down Birch Run freely.
On account of the water keeping
roilIy so long. an accurate account OF
the less at bayfield, could not be
kept Although the fry retained is
| doing well at present, there will not
| be as many brook trout yearlings
next spring as last spring. At the
/ Madison hatchery there are as many
brook trout over one-year old as
ever there were. With no further loss
i there should be large number OF
! eggs another year.
The distribution of fish fry from the
Bayfield, hatchery was ass follows:
Wall-eyed pike. 11,38O,OOO; lake
trout, 1867, OOO brook trout, 32S,500;
total, 19,07O,500. The brook trout
were distributed to streams along the
! c., st. P. NJ. & 0. railway from
! Bayfield, to Eau Claire, and streams
within distributing distance of that
: line CT road in that section Of the
state. The pike were planted in vari-
GUS inland lakes in the northern
part of the state, and in Chequame-
gon bay. OF lake trout, 100000 were
planted in Chequamegon bay, and
some two millions were planted ia
Lake Michigan and Green Bay of
! from fishing points. Without an eX-
ception, the fish from this hatchery
were reported planted in good con
ditiCn, and without any loss what
ever. An ice house and barn have
! been built at Bayfield, this season
Supt. Nevin has the site Of the
ponds which the commissioners con.
template building in the future
staked out and grades for embark
ments and water levels taken; sc
that the ponds will be arranged anG
built Systematically. He recommend:
that two ponds be built this season.
The Oshkosh hatchery building wa,
completed in time to hatch the spring
collection of pike eggs as intended
A hatch of one hundred millions pike
fry was expected at this station las
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