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REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONERS OF 



a decrease the coming year in the number of young fisli that will be furnished from 

 the station for planting in other waters, the loss was a blessing in disguise, from the 

 fact that the different species of fish had been crossed and recrossed in years past 

 until hybridism was the rule, and pure-bred fish the exception in the State ponds. 

 The loss has been made good in part with young, vigorous pure-bred fish ; and all 

 the stock ponds will soon contain their full quota of breeding fish of pure lineage, 

 better adapted for producing fry and yearlings for planting than fish with a taint of 

 hybridism." This promise has been more than fulfilled. To-day this station is second 

 to none in the United States in equipment and quality of work performed. It has a 

 capacity for hatching 5,000,000 trout fry, 10,000,000 whitefish and 20,000,000 pike- 

 perch, and in its rearing boxes and races 800,000 fingerling trout can be reared 

 annually. There are now at this station twenty-five stock ponds — one a wild pond. 

 The dam has been rebuilt and laid in cement so that there is no waste of water what- 

 ever. Four of the stock ponds ha\e been rebuilt, laid in cement with cement copings 

 and improxed in form for the better aeration of the water. P'our hundred and sixty 

 barrels of cement and 250 loads of sand were used in the repairs. The hatching 

 troughs ha\e all been replaced with new ones of cypress, and the piping is all of 

 wrought iron with brass gates. 



On the 1st of October when the inventory of fish on hand at this station was com- 

 pleted it was found in place of the hybrid fish destroyed by the water mould in June, 

 1895, that the station could boast of the following vigorous, pure-bred fish: 



Brook trout, five to eight years old, ..... 45 



Brook trout, two and one-half to three and one-half years old, 3.000 



Brook trout, one and one-half years old, .... 5,000 



Brown trout, five to twelve years old, ..... i>5oo 



Brown trout, three to four years old, . . . ... 300 



Brown trout, one to two years old, ..... 300 



Lake trout, ten to fifteen years old, ..... 25 



Rainbow trout, five years old, ..... 40 



Rainbow trout, three years old, ...... 500 



Rainbow trout, one to two years old, ..... 400 



Red throat trout,' one and one-half years old, . . . 1,900 



Brook trout, eight months old, ...... 70,000 



Brown trout, eight months old, ...... 32,000 



Lake trout, eight months old, . . . ^ 8.000 



Land-locked salmon, eight months old, .... 2,500 



Scotch sea trout, eight months old, ..... 750 



Rainbow trout, six months old, ...... 14,000 



Steelhead trout, five months old. ...... 650 



Total, 



140,910 



