Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1911-10-27
Circular Letter About Stocking
Streams, Posting and Other
Inform alton

Trout, Steelhead Trout commonly cal |
led Rainbow, Lake Trout, Landlocked !
Salmon, Chinook Salmon. Of these
species the brook trout is adapted to
brooks and similar small streams.
The Steelhead or Rainbow destroys the
This species and the salmon are adapted
to lakes and large bodies of water.
Fish may be obtained for stocking
public waters by applying to the Com
missioner, John w. Titcomb, Lyndon
vile, Vt, for one blank for each stream
of water it is desired to stock, filling
in the blank when received and then
mailing promptly to the commissioner.
All applications for fish to be planted in
1912 must be in the commissioner
Office not later than March 80, 1912.
The number of fish assigned will depend
upon the size of the stream and the
number of fish available for distribu-
ton.
The state will deliver free of charge
at the applicants nearest railroad
station, fish to be planted in public
waters. Fish may also be obtained by
Writing the United States Bureau of
Fisheries, Washington, D. c., asking
for one application blank for each body
of water to be stocked, filling in the
blank as indicated and mailing it to your
congressman with request that he give
it his endorsement and forward to the
bureau of fisheries. If you prefer you
may send the application to the state
commissioner who will take care of it
and see that it reaches proper destina-
ton. Application may be made to both
the u. S. Bureau of Fisheries and the
state for fish to stock the same waters.
The federal government delivers fish
free of charge at the applicant nearest
railroad station.
Both federal government and state
give proper notice before fish are for
warded to an applicant, with instruc-
tons how to plant.
Trout for posted waters and private
, state provided any trout are available
after the applications for public waters
have been filled. 1t will also be possible
to arrange for the purchase of trout
from the State Hatchery if ordered in
the fall before it is too late to procure
eggs. Eggs of the brook trout are only
obtainable in the fall of the year, and
! it is in this season that we must make
} arrangements for the entire stock which
is to be Matched for next seasons dis
tribution. The price will be practically
the same as that charged by CONNER
cial dealers.
A list of commercial dealers in fish
will be mailed to any person asking
for it,
Stocking streams before April 18th:
The question of whether streams must
be stocked before April 18th in order to
make posting lawful and of full effect,
: is constantly arising. The attorney
general was Intercepted and advised
me as follows:
81 am directed by the attorney
general to write you in reply to your
letter of August ODD, concerning the
time when streams should be stocked in
order to enable the owners of lands,
through which such streams flow, to
take advantage of the posting law,
Secs. SO.
"He has considered the same an dad
vises you that, in his judgment, the
stocking of any stream after April 18th
in any year and before April 18th of the
succeeding year, answers the require
ments of the statue, so far as emitting
the owner of the land and stream of the
protection of the statute during the
open season following the second
April 18th.
From this Interpretation of the law
any person who has stocked stream
this present season may consider that
his posting holds good on it until one
: year from the date the fish were
planted.
In many cases it is waste of fry to
e plant them early in the spring and
therefore persons desiring to avail
themselves of the posting law at the
beginning of the open season in 1917
should, if possible, secure fingerlings in
s the fall of 1911, The state has none foi
,, sale this fall of 1911. Try commercial
e dealers.
S Fry are to be obtained in the spring
g Fingerlings are not available unit
late in June and the size anc
;. price both increase for deliveries uI
s to October. Trout hatch in the spring
d and winter only.
$ The best results follow annual stock
e ing of the waters leaving the fishing