The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1913-04-26
100000 TROUTFRY
FOR BENNINGTON
FISHERMEN
Receiving Station Assists in
Distribution
FIRST TEST YESTERDAY
New Arrangement of Fish and Game
Club Solves Difficult
Problem.

A hundred thousand brook trout
fry arrived in Bennington yesterday
afternoon and were taken in charge
by members of the Fish and Game
Club. They are the first consign-
ment from the State hatchery. lit
tie later another hundred thousand
will be received, and Commissioners
Titcomb has promised that as soon
as possible he will send a supply of
fingerlings. This is exclusive of
other shipments that are to come
from the United States Government
hatchery. 1t is probable that the al
lotments from the Government will
equal those from the State, and If so,
it will mean that at least half mil
lion fry will this year be put in the
streams which are Immediately acces
sible to Bennington fishermen. 9th
er streams are being similarly stock
ed, as a part of the general plan of
County Game Warden Higgins, i'll
the northern part of the county.
The arrival of this first lot of
trout ON the afternoon train gave an
excellent opportunity to test the eff
cheney of the new receiving station
which the Fish and Game Club re
Gently completed on Dewey Brook.
1t was quite impossible in the few
hours after receipt of the fish to put
them all into the brooks for which
they were designated. Many of them
were at once dispatched by teams
and automobiles in various direct
ions. Forty thousand, however, were
placed in the tanks of the receiving
station. Their distribution to the
brooks In Woodford began this morn
ing and will continue until all have
reached their final destination.
The receiving station makes II
possible not only to distribute trout
with far more certainty that they
will reach the streams in good con-
dtion, but also to handle a much lar.
ger number of them. Without the
station only those trout that could
be distributed Immediately could be
received. Now they may be kept in
the receiving station for days without
injury.
There are six tanks in the station,
each twenty feet long, a foot wide,
and ten inches deep. All told there
is capacity for three hundred and
twenty thousand fry. The tanks are
divided into compartments, each com
partment holding the contents of one
shipping can, which is five thous-
and. When distribution is in pro-
gress they may be taken out com
partment by compartment, as they
were put in.
The lumber for the tanks was fur
nished by Dexter NJ. Gleason at a
very material reduction. William C..
Bull gave the use of his shop and
one man for the necessary mill work.
and the Dewey Estate readily grant.
ed permission for the placing of the
tanks on its land. The actual work
of construction and erection was
done by members of the Fish and
Game Club.
After its first trial the receiving
station now gives every promise of
being a valuable help to County War
den Higgins in his work of stocking
the streams each year. The further
plans of the Fish and Game Club TO
put a patrol into the field in order
that this good work may not be
largely mullified by illegal fishing are
being actively prosecuted. If the
streams are regularly stocked in this
way. and if the keeping of short trout
that have not yet reproduced them
selves and the netting of larger ones,
is discouraged by an adequate patrol
system, the fishing in Bennington
County will be second to none.