1 98 REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONERS OF FISHERIES, GAME AND FORESTS. 



long, and where the six-inch trout law is observed numbers of trout will spawn before 

 they can be legally killed. If there were no six-inch trout law it would be possible to 

 kill the trout before they spawned once, and the stock would have to depend almost 

 entirely upon artificial propagation, with but slight aid from natural processes. A 

 "yearling" trout in one of the State rearing ponds is quite a different fish from 

 a wild trout of the same age, for the State rears yearlings (seventeen months from the 

 egg) that are ten and one-half inches long. Two-year-old trout may yield as many 

 as 500 eggs, and older fish as many as 1,500. 



To maintain fair fishing, even in a trout stream, such work as the State may be 

 able to do in the way of planting the water should be supplemented by all the fish that 

 may come from natural reproduction, and the trout should have every possible 

 opportunity to spawn unmolested. 



A. N. CHENEY, 



State Fish Culturisi. 



STRIPPING TROUT. 



