Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1914-01-10
FISH HATCHERIES
CLOSE GOOD YEAR
Report on Amount of Spawn Ia.
ken From Lakes.
100000 EGGS OBTAINED
According to State Superintendent
James Nevin, Catch is Taken to
bayfield,, Where It viii Be
Hatched.

Madison - superintendent James
Nevin of the Wisconsin fish commits
tistics covering the collection of lake
trout eggs from the waters of Lakes
Superior and Michigan for the sea
son 1913. The first eggs were taken
from Lake Superior, where the lake
trout spawn from Is TO so days earlier
than in Lake Michigan. The closed
season on Superior is from October
! to November 1 inclusive, and it is
during this period that the Wiscon-
sin statutes allow the superintendent
Of fisheries to issue special permits
to commercial fishermen to catch fish
for spawn.
This season II permits were is
sued to fishermen plying out of Bay
field The first net was lifted on
October ], and the last or October
u The first spawn was taken on
October 4 and the most spawn was
taken after October Is. During the
closed season the q boats made 1874
lifts of the nets, caught 76,399 pounds
Of lake trout, and which produced
70914 quarts Of eggs, or some 1000,
GOO. All these eggs were sent to the
state hatchery near Bayfield, and are
now in process Of incubation.
An average of 404 pounds of FISH
We're caught at every lift Of the nets,
and it required an average OF 1912
pounds of fish for every quart of eggs
secured. The largest catch of fish was
made in the vicinity of Willis Island.
where S.35S pounds of FISH were caught
in II lifts
The closed season on Lake Michi-
gan is from November I to Deem
Der ], Inclusive. Permits were issued
10 the fishermen working out of the
ports of Kenosha. Racine, Milwaukee,
Port Washington, TWO Rivers, She
boygan. Algoma and Sturgeon Bay.
Fprty-seven permits We're issued for
the take - were issued at Milwau-
kee. These a permits report %1S
lifts of the nets, a total catch of
3S9,179 pounds Of FISH and 2,715 quarts
of eggs were sent to the state hatch
cries located at Sheboygan and Stur-
geon Bay. This shows an average
catch of ,0GS1a pounds of fish to
every lift of nets and l25 pounds Of
fish per quart Of eggs produced.
The largest catch of fish was out of
Milwaukee, where one of the boats
reported catch Of 25900 pounds in
10 lifts The smallest average Of
pounds of fish required per quar-. Of
eggs secured was out of Sturgeon
Bay, where it run 521a pounds The
other ports show an average from 60
to loo pounds Port Washington
shows the largest average in pounds
of fish caught per lift same being
$40 pounds. the smallest being 244ia
pounds out of Bailey's harbor
In addition to the above - per-
mits were issued to fishermen who
thoroughly impregnated the eggs and
planted them back on the reefs from
which the parent fish We're caught.
The r. permits report 80 lifts, 49,.
All pounds of fish caught and ISL
quarts Of eggs fortified and planted
on the spawning beds
This closes a most successful sea
son. The three state hatcheries at
bayfield,. Sturgeon Bay and Sheboy-
gan now contain some 10000 900 Of
these eggs and which are Ia good
condition
The commission also collected sci
quarts Of blue fin fish eggs. These
were taken from boats fishing out Of
sturgeon Bay.
The regular annual meeting Of
the Wisconsin fish commission has
been called for January s at Madi-
son