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Title: Annual report of the Forest, Fish and Game Commission of the State of New York
Year: 1900 (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
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Department laboriously madeand accumulated during a series of years may have permanent value, the Statehas followed a policy of establishing coast signals along the shores of LongIsland Sound, Staten Island and Jamaica Bay. These lines of signals now cover 180linear miles, and thousands of recorded references thereto are contained in thebooks of the Shellfish Department. It is recommended that a suitable sum beappropriated for the maintenance of these signals. During the year the oyster planters have enjoyed comparative prosperity; the set of young oysters in Long Island Sound in the summer of 1899, which was sogreat as to be without precedent in those waters, has already been extensivelyhandled, being sold to planters in other localities for seed. Experiments have been made by some oystermen for the purpose of determiningthe utility of planting large spawning oysters for the purpose of annually securing aset upon particular grounds; notably Captain H. M. Randall, of Port Jefferson,58
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IN THE GULF STREAM —KING FISH. REPORT OF THE FOREST, FISH AND GAME COMMISSION. 59 has conducted such experiments, obtaining results which encourage him to under-take further work and outlay in that direction. Perhaps the greatest problem with which oyster planters are called to deal isthat of the destruction of the natural enemies of the oyster, among which the star-fish is without doubt most destructive. Improved methods of taking the stars arenow in use, and by the constant exercise of vigilance and care their numbers arereduced to a degree which permits of profitable oystering. There is a communityof interest among planters in the matter of destroying stars. Should one mankeep his ground ever so clean, his work might be entirely neutralized should hisneighbor allow the stars to grow and accumulate upon contiguous territory. Upon this principle the Suwassett Oyster Company has furnished a steamer,without expense to the State, for the purpose of taking up the stars upon the natural

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