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Identifier: annualreport101112190newy (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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n itself. As indicating the value of the State hatchery system in a mannerwhich cannot be misunderstood, I quote from the recent report of Mr. JohnM. Cobb, Agent of the United States Fish Commission, who, in giving adetailed account of the commercial fisheries of the interior lakes and riversof New York, says: The interior waters of New York produce more maskalonge andsmelt than the waters of any other State in the Union, and they lead allothers, except the Great Lakes, in the catch of bullheads, pickerel, wall-eyed pike (except Minnesota), yellow perch, and suckers. In 1895 thetotal catch was 754,730 pounds, valued at $60,068, while in 1902 it amountedto 1,530,918 pounds, valued at $87,897, a gain of 776,183 pounds and$27,811. Undoubtedly, judging from the increase in our population and fromthe number of applications for fish as previously stated, the amount andvalue of the fish taken from the inland waters of the State have increasedin a similar proportion during the past two years.
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FLY-FISHING ON THE DELAWARE RIVER, NEAR PORT JERVIS.—LANDING A SMALL-MOUTHED BASS FOREST, FISH AXD GAME COMMISSIONER. 141 Tl)e Food Fisl) For reasons not well understood, there were unusual difficulties lastseason, attending the highly important work of propagating what areclassed in this State as food fish. These difficulties, it has been learned,were also experienced in other states. In our own hatcheries the appar-ently health) eggs, especially of the pike-perch, perished by thousands orhatched out weaklings without any reason that was apparent to theexperienced men in charge. In the opinion of many fishermen the troublewas due to the unusually prolonged and severe weather of the winter pre-ceding the spawning season. The run of shad in the Hudson river was also much smaller than usual.Several snow squalls which came on during the season, chilled the water atvarious times sufficiently to check the run, but the fishermen also assertthat the pollution of the river is now so great t

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