The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-02-26
STATE
What New York Has Done to Stock It's
Streams and Lakes,

Streams and Lakes.
Albany Letter in New York Commercial
Advertiser.
J. Amin. jr., state superintendent of fish
hatcheries, has submitted his annual report
to the State Fisheries, Game and Forest
Commission. In it he says:
THE new Oneida hatchery has the ca
pacity for handling lbs, goo, 600 eggs of the
Spr-fng-SpaWning fish, and again in the fall
and winter of 81, 100000 eggs of the fall or
Winter-spaWninS fish, such as white fish and
ciseoes.
1T is the intention to build ponds for
black bass in connection with this hatch
cry, where the bass can deposit their eggs
naturally, and the young bass be collected
and distributed.
THE hatchery located near Saranac Inn,
in Franklin county, called the Adirondack
hatchery, has been entirely remodeled and
enlarged. Six and eIght-inch iron pipes
tance of about 1000 feet) to a point at the
bottom Of Little Clear lake, where the water
is fifty feet deep and the temperature stands
at A degrees and varies only 4 degrees
summer and winter.
THAT furnishes the hatchery and an en-
tire system of rearing ponds, with an
abundance of the very best water, making
1t one of the most valuable hatclIeries in
the State. Now, It S possible TO raise thou
sands of trout There to eight, ten and hf-
teen months old before planting them in the
streams and PONDS Of The northern portion
Of the State.
I'm addition &c the trout hatcning, glass
Matching jars sufficient for Matching 1Q.N0,-
coo frost fish eggs have been supplied and
put in complete lun1inS order The iJcatlon
of the Adirondack hatchery as a distribut-
ing point is unsurpassed by any TCint in the
A~CilOndacks.
AT the Cold Spring hatchery on Long is
and new ponds have been built, so that the
water supply can be fully utilized, and the
greatest number of fish possible turned out.
A very gratifying fact in regard to this
hatchery is that it has on hand for distrbu-
ton more tingerlings and y%earlings than the
total production of the hatchery for three
previous years.
cat the Beaverkill hatchery, in Sullivan
ounty, about five thousand lingering trout
were reared since the spring water supply
was obtained.
THE necessary repairs and improved
water supply for each of the hatcheries has
had the most careful attention. All of the
hatcheries are run 70 their greatest capa-
city. New and improved methods are being
introduced, and it may be said without eX-
aggeration that the hatcheries of New York
State are superior to any of the kind in this
or any other country.
The policy adopted by the commission of
planting larger and older fish in addition to
ing fraternity. From the numerous reports
received in regard to the fishing in streams
and lakes where fngerlings or yearlings
have been planted, it is satisfactorily shown
that the work should be continued, as the
results fully warrant the additional expense.
From all over the State come encouraging
reports Of better fishing. The commission
has done more in the way of restocking the
streams in the past two years than was
ever done before.
"An actual count is always made of the
fngerlings and yearlings sent out by your
commission. Ten thousand fingerlings, or
5000 yearlings, make q large carload. Three
hundred and fifty thousand fingerlings
(thirty-five carlOads) have been sent out by
your commission inside of three months, and
10000 yearlings five carioads) will be ready
for distribution next spring.
with the continued efforts to have our
hatcheries increasing their output of finger
lings and yearlings comes the question Of eX-
pense. Two of the principal items entering
into the cost of producing this sized fish is
the food and the time taken TO prepare it.
Recent experiments with new food lead me
to believe that the cost Of production can be
materially reduced.
Experiments in the mode Of Matching
and rearing young of some varieties of fish
have been successful. I refer to the hatch
ing and rearing in confinement of the red
throat trout. About 100000 fngerlings Of
this variety are now at the Caledonia and
Pleasant Valley hatcheries. The eggs We're
taken from the adult fish confined In the
hatchery ponds.
we have also been successful in hatch
ing mascalonge eggs by the glass-jar
method, and the rearing of the young fry
to the length Of four and one-half inches in
three months.
TT has also been found by actual work
and experiment that our inland lakes can
furnish whiteish eggs in sufficient numbers
for the restocking Of Lake Ontario and in
land waters with this valuable food fish.
Over 100000 of white fish were Matched
and planted during the last year. and the
supply of eggs was obtained from inland
waters of the State.