The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-02-13
Pike Stripping Station at
Lake Champlain Plans
Busy Spring
CERTAIN INTERESTS
FAVOR SEEMING
Effort to Get This Form of Fishing Al
lowed is Source of Much Annoyance
to Sportsmen-New York and Can
ada Are Opposed

BURLINGTON, Feb l3.-To help out
the pike fishing in the future, operations
are already under way at the stripping
station which will be established in a
few weeks in West Milton on the Lamoillc
river. A house and barn have been rent
ed of the International Pulp & Paper Co,
and third building will be put up soon
The house will be used for housing the
men and the barn for stripping the pike.
1t is hoped that at least 5o,OOo,0o0 eggs
can be obtained from the pike this spring
Within few days work will be begun
on the dam which is to be constructed
across the mouth of Il tributary of the
| l-amoille river to make a pond where the
pike can be kept until ripe for stripping
fhe dam will be about 40 feet in width
| and five or six feet high In the pond
there will be a division and the female
| pike kept on one side and the males ON
the other When the stripping is under
way about eight men will be employed
there The fish have to be inspected ey-
| cry day to see if they are ripe. This is
done by getting them out of the pond in
| a net. If a fish is not ripe. to strip il
| means killing it and the eggs are of no
| use. Another building, which will be put
up soon, will be shack for the use of
the men who are getting the fish out Of
the river
| The plant on the wharf of the Cham
| plain Transportation Co in this city viii
be put into operation as soon as practi-
| cable. Last year about 306 quarts of eggs
were used at the station here in Burling-
ton, and as the eggs run about 10000
| to the quart, more than 45.000000 eggs
were handled here When everything is
| favorable, it is estimated that between
70 and so per cent of the eggs hatch into
little pike. This is a vast improvement
over natures course where only very
small percentage are successfully Matched.
Of course there is a further loss on the
small fish which 60 into the lake, but the
1sh wardens are pretty CAREFUL and plant
The Try only in the most favorable places
With all the care and work which is
being expended by the true sportsmen of
Nermont, one of their chief worries is
The continued effort which is being made
to bring back seining in Lake Champlain
bill to permit this is now before the
legislature. Such a practice, in the opin
ION of every true fisherman, would be
nothing short of great disaster to the
fishing in. Lake Champlain After 80 years
of trial, the Canadians have finally been
] induced to prohibit seining in the lake
and New York state remains strongly
/ against it. If such permit should *
| nven on this side Vermont would be tho
only place on the lake to turn "yelow
and of course the other places would
quickly follow suit
II When the seining was allowed in that
short space of the lake which extend.
into Canada. one game warden spent 4
week up there investigating The expense
Of allowing only those waters to be useC
in that manner was terrible Adult Is
selnes came under his observation These
were going night and day and between
10 and II barrels of fish were beinl
shipped out, and this in the middle o
e the spawning season The fishermen il
the northern end of the lake are maxim.
e a big income for the time they fish unde
the present conditions. Those who arr
r strongest in favor Of the bill are thos
who would like 10 make a good cleanup
!. even at the expense of spelling the fishing