42 FISH AND GAME. 



before, and included Chinook salmon, rainbow trout, small- 

 mouthed black bass, large-mouthed black bass, wall-eyed pike, 

 yellow perch and bullheads. 



SUTTON HATCHERY. 



During the past year the Sutton Hatchery has been further 

 developed as a fish-rearing station. In spite of certain adverse 

 conditions which very much increased the amount of work, 

 operations were conducted with more than average success. 

 Its location makes it a most admirable distributing center for 

 the central part of the Commonwealth. 



In addition to hatching the eggs of the brook trout obtained 

 from brood stock on the premises, large consignments were 

 received from the Sandwich Hatchery and reared to fry and 

 fingerlings. The propagation of the brown trout has been dis- 

 continued and the entire brood stock of mature fish have been 

 liberated. 



The work of improvement was largely of a replacement 

 nature, though plans of new construction, bringing the station 

 to a more finished state, were undertaken. An extensive sec- 

 tion of the main brook was walled with stone and concrete in 

 which frames for flashboards and screens were set at intervals 

 to permit of the channel of the brook being used for fingerlings 

 in the latter part of the season. The roof of the hatchery 

 building and the hatching troughs have been repaired in prepa- 

 ration for the work of the coming year. 



ADAMS HATCHERY. 



At the Adams Hatchery and rearing station valuable work 

 has been accomplished in the way of local distribution of fish 

 among the streams of Berkshire County. This plant has been 

 developed from a fry-hatching station, operated only a few 

 months of each year, into a fry and fingerling hatchery. It 

 is now worked practically the whole year round. This hatchery 

 is dependent upon the other stations for its stock, which this 

 year consisted of brook trout, Chinook salmon and landlocked 

 salmon. The first were hatched, reared and distributed as fry 

 and fingerlings; the two latter as fingerlings. Results in a 



