The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-05-18
State Fish and Game Depart
ment Already Has Be-
gun Distribution
WINDHAM COUNTY
SHOULD HAVE A CLUB
Such an Organization Would Make
Possible Systematic Stocking of
Streams Commissioner Titcomb Has
Great Hopes for Vernon Plant.

State Fish and Game Commissioner
John w. Titcomb of Lyndonville was
in town over night on his way to
South Vernon to inspect the new trout
rearing station now in operation. Thus
far conditions at the Vernon plant
have proven to be extremely favorable
and If the water supply proves ade-
quate through the dry season there is
little doubt that the station will be
developed considerably and made into
a permanent institution.
Between 100000 and 100000 trout
fry are being reared at the Vernon
plant and Mr.. Titcomb saws that n
large part of these will be distributed
in the streams of the Deerield and
West river valleys, these sections be
ing especially hard to serve from the
state hatchery at Roxbury on account
of the poor railroad connections.
According to the commissioner the
state fish and game department never
had so many trout for distribution in
public waters as it has this spring.
Shipments of fry have already begun
and will continue steadily until well
into June. While many sportsmen be.
heve that tingerlings are much better
for stocking purposes than FRY Commits
fact that the state has facilities for
Matching about ten times as MANY
trout as it can raise to the fingerIinp
stage, and that as fry can be shipped
for about onc-tenth the cost of finger
hngs the department believes it good
policy to hatch all the trout it can and
distribute the surplus fry. Mr. Tit
comb IS convinced that fry properly
planted at this season of the wear =
that IS, distributed in the small tribu-
tary streams-are more valuable than
hngerhngS when the comparative
cost is taken into consideration, basing
hls conviction on an experience cover
ing long term of years
mat this section of the state should
have sportsmen 5 organization like
those IN Rutland, Bennington. Addison
and Caledonia counties is the firm he
het OF Commissioner TitcOmb. He saws
that such an organization provides the
facilities for systematic stocking of
streams and ponds from year to wear.
and that the counties that have such
associations are getting the most fish
Tor the reason that they make more an
pllcauons than the others. A club of
ZOo members each paving the small
sum OF 81 year would have in its
-''tAN'9 NAiOuEsi 10 pay Iut enIlfC
cost of planting all the fish that could
be secured from the state and the fed
eral government, and if this work were
carried on for several seasons the i'm
provement in the fishing would be SO
great as to be almost beyond belief
Commissioner Titcomb hopes to issue
before long circular letter to be sent
to each of the 10000 odd holders of
hunting and fishing licenses through
out the state. In it he intends to ex-
plain the aims and hopes of the fish
and game department and to point out
why it should have the hearty CO.
operation of every hunter and fisher
man in Vermont The letter will also
contain arguments in favor of the six.
inch trout law and suggestions in re.
gard to further changes in the laws
pertaining to fishing. Mr.. Titcomh
firmly believes that great things can
be accomplished for Vermont with the
funds available from the fishing and
hunting license fees, and he is anxious
to have all the sportsmen of the state
III thorough sympathy with the plans
| of his department.