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Title: Final report of the Ontario Game and Fisheries Commission 1909-1911 : appointed to enquire into and report on all matters appertaining to the game fish, the fisheries, and the game of the province of Ontario.
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Ontario. Ontario Game and Fisheries Commission.
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Publisher: Toronto : King's Printer
Contributing Library: Ontario Legislative Library
Digitizing Sponsor: The Law Foundation of Ontario & the Ontario Council of University Libraries

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coarser fishes which pro-vide sport, and it would plainly be a sim))le matter to arrange for thedistribution of such of llicse as might be rcMpiircd for sporting purposes.It would, moreover, eiiliiil but little additional (X))ense or trouble tohandle tlie eggs of the mascalonge in these commercial hatcheries. Itwould seem, then, that in so far as thi^ iuhmIs of the s))orting fisheriesare concerned there are l»ut two varieties of fish, indigenous to theProvincis for which liatclieries, separate from the general commercialhatcheries, would have to be provided, namely the speckled trout andthe black bass. There are in existence on this continent no snmll nuud)er of hatch-eries conducted as private enteri>ris(^s from which the fry, eggs, finger-lings or uiature fish of certain sporting varieties, but chiefly of thespeckled trout, can be obtain(Ml. The main reason for the ap)x\ii*anceof the private commercial hatcheries in the States has apparently been. Long Island, N.Y.Fish Hatchery-
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Long Island, N.Y.Fish Hatchery,showing YoungBrook Trout inTank. 1912 AND FISHERIES COMMISSION. 115 not the demand for fry by anglers, but tlie steady demand and greatprice to be obtained for speckled trout on the markets of New York andother great American cities. In this Province, however, the majorityof citizens would be unwilling to pay the fancy prices for this fish whichprevail in the markets across the border, more especially so aK it entailspurchasing little more than a name, the liver-fed brook trout beingdevoid of nearly all the delicacy and flavour which have rendered thewild fish famous as a table dish. The great quantities of fish whichhave to be raised for market purposes in order to make the enterprisefinancially succesisful have resulted in the hatcheries in certain ins-tances being- able to dispose of large quantities of eggs or fry at a lesscost than it would have taken the State hatcheries to produce them.In spite of this fact, however, both the uncertainty of this s

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