River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1914-01-08
FISH HAYCHER|ES
CLOSE GOOD YEAR
Report on Amount of Spawn Ia
ken From Lakes.
4o,ooo,ooo EGGS OBTAINED
According to State Superintendent
James Nevin, Catch Is Taken to
HsyfieId, Where It viii BE
Hatched.

Madison Superintendent James
NeYin 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 80 days earlier
than in Lake Michigan. The closed
season on Superior is from October
/ to November 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 81 permits were is
sued to fishermen plying out of Bay
field The first net was lifted on
October /, and the last on October
q. The first spawn was taken on
October 4, and The most spawn was
taken after october IS. During the
closed season the 81 boats made 164
lifts of the nets, caught 76,399 pounds
OF lake trout, and which produced
1922 quarts of eggs, or some 7,000,-
600 All these eggs we're sent to the
state hatchery near Bayfield, and are
now in process of incubation.
An average of 4O4 pounds of fish
were caught at every lift of the nets,
and it required an average of 1919
pounds of fish for every quart of eggs
secured. The largest catch of fish was
made in the vicinity of Willis Island,
where 1888 pounds of fish were caught
in II lifts.
The closed season on Lake Michi-
gan is from November l to Deem
Der L, inclusive. Permits were issued
to the fishermen working out of the
ports of Kenosha, Racine, Milwaukee,
Port Washington, Two Rivers, She
boygan, Algoma and Sturgeon Bay.
Forty-seven permits were issued for
the take, % were issued at Milwau-
kee. These AZ permits report 31S
lifts of the nets, total catch of
339,77S pounds of fish and 2,715 quarts
of eggs were sent to the state hatch
cries located at Sheboygan and Stir
catch of 1,06S1h pounds of fish 70
every lift of nets and 125 pounds of
fish per quart of eggs produced.
The largest catch of fish was out of
Milwaukee, where one of the boats
reported a catch of $4,000 pounds III
Is lifts The smallest average of
pounds of fish required per quart OF
eggs secured was out of Sturgeon
Bay, where it run 521s pounds. The
other ports show an average from 60
to 100 pounds. Port Washington
shows the largest average in pounds
of fish caught per lift. same being
1912 pounds, the smallest being PAM
pounds out of Bailey's harbor.
In addition to the above II per-
mits were issued to fishermen who
thoroughly impregnated the eggs and
planted them back on the reefs from
which the parent fish were caught.
The 10 permits report 80 lifts, 49,
All pounds of fish caught and 7S1
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 100000 of
these eggs and which are in good
condition.
The commission also collected SCI
quarts of blue fin fish eggs. These
were taken from boats fishing ut of
sturgeon Bay.
The regular annual meeting Of
the Wisconsin fish commission has
been called for January s at Madi-
SON