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Identifier: annualreport131415190newy (find matches)
Title: Annual report
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: New York (State). Forest, Fish and Game Commission
Subjects: Forests and forestry Fisheries Game and game-birds
Publisher: (Albany, N.Y. : The Commission)
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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on green brook trout eggs from Weissport, Pa., gave us over seventy-five per cent good eggs. The water from flowing wells, cold and free fromdirt, has proved itself of excellent quality as we had no loss from disease ofany kind among our trout this past year. The over supply of oxygen,which all artesian well water contains in this region, was disposed of byrunning it the length of building before entering the supply trough. Wefailed in the collection of torn cod eggs. Before the spawning season therewere plenty of fish, good catches being made by hand line fishermen; butin December they all disappeared. In the Great South Bay, where we getmost of the spawn, not a fish could be caught. Later it was reported theywere being washed ashore by the surf on Rockaway Beach. We tookup hatching winter flat fish, the spawn collected from fish caught in Gardi-ners Bav by the fyke-net fishermen. This is a very important food fish onthe New York market. This work was cut short by our engine and pump
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o 5 FOREST, FISH AND GAME COMMISSIONER. 319 getting out of order which caused us to shut down. A fine run of smeltgave us about all the spawn we could handle. Large catches of these fishwere reported along the Sound, which shows good results from this branchof work. Owing to the old pump being out of order, the lobster hatchingwas transferred to Fort Pond Bay, near Montauk, Long Island. Throughthe courtesy of Capt. E. B. Tuthill, a large dealer at Montauk, we wereallowed privileges that enabled us to carry on this work and with his aidwe secured a good lot of eggs. The hatching was done in the old SethGreen shad boxes used on Hudson river years ago and discarded for modernappliances. Many fishermen bring their catches at this point to CaptainTuthill who ships them to market and they were much interested in thehatching of lobsters when they could see the young fry planted every day.Several lots of good sea bass eggs were collected, but owing to the rough-ness of the water, the eggs bei

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