The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1915-05-22
CHINOOK SALMON FOR
NEW JERSEYS ANGLERS

Working out plans that will make
it possible for a Jerseyman to catch in
the streams and lakes of his own
State many varieties of the great
game fishes of America, the New Jer-
sey Fish and Game Commission is ar
ranging for the introduction of the
famous Chinook salmon into New Jer-
sey waters. This kingly inhabitant of
Pacific coast rivers, the Federal Blu
reau of Fisheries has demonstrated,
can be transplanted to deep water in
terror lakes and within the last few
years remarkable success has been at
tanned in stocking New England
ponds with the Chinook, with the re-
suit that Yankee anglers this season
are catching many of these big fish.
That New Jersey has many lakes
in which the salmon would flourish
is the belief of the State Commission
and President Ernest Napier is ar
ranging with Commissioner w. l.. Fin
ley, of Oregon, for the first shipment
of 100000 Chinook eggs to the New
Jersey hatchery at Hackettstown.
The young salmon will be reared at
the big hatchery until they are large
enough to care for themselves and
then will be liberated in public wat
ers.
The acme of all angling is salmon
fishing but it is a sport heretofore en-
joyed only by the few with the big
pocketbook and the time necessary to
seek out the Western streams where
the big fish run. In the very near
future this royal sport will be within
the reach of every holder of a New
Jersey fishing license, and at a mini
mum expenditure of time and money
Other fish, new to this region, which
the New Jersey commission plans to
rear this season for restocking purpo-
ses, are the celebrated Loeb Levin
trout, OF Scotland, and the giant steel
heads-the sea-running varieties of
the rainbow trout. 1t is the policy
of the New Jersey commissioners to
make every available stream and lake
a source, not only of sport but of
food supply for the average citizen.
The results attained with the big
hatchery at Hackettstown in opera
ton only two years have made a
New Jersey fishing license, costing
residents only $1.15 and non-residents
S2.15, a permit to enjoy some of the
finest fishing to be had in America.
Thousands of New Jersey fishermen,
especially in the rural communities,
can now find within a mile or two OF
their homes, or at most, within a hall
hours ride by train or trolley, one or
more well-stocked streams. To en-
joy the varities of angling sport
which his own State now offers him,
the Jerseyman heretofore had to go to
Canada or some equally distant terri
tory.
Rainbow trout, brook trout, brown
trout, land-locked salmon, various
kinds of bass, white perch, yellow
perch, Graphic, pike and pickerel are
the chief of New Jerseys game fishes
that now offer the angler a choice to
suit any whim of the fisherman. AND
so great is the output of fish that can
be produced at the new hatchery thai
within a few years the State will be
able to boast of waters that TEEN with
fish like the streams of an untappeo
wilderness.
Sportsmen can gain some idea OF
what the Fish and Game Commission
has planned for the coming year from
the records available at the Hacketts-
town hatchery. Heading the list are
5000, 900 eggs of the yellow perch
and 100000 eggs of the white perch
Matching or to be Matched this year.
Hundreds of thousands of brook anc
rainbow trout eggs have been matched
each month during the Winter ano
early Spring. Most of the trout eggs
were taken from the fish in the rear.
ing ponds at the hatchery, but a recent
lot of 10000 wild rainbow trout
eggs has been ordered from Michigar
to supplement the years supply. The
rearing ponds are full of trout rang.
ing in size from fry to the seven tt
f~ourteen-inch two-year-olds ready fol
liberation in the waters of every coun
ty of the State.