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REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONERS OF FISHERIES, GAME AND FORESTS. 



bass. Counties of the Adirondack Wilderness and the Catskill region, not mentioned 

 in the foregoing list, have black bass in their waters, and the greatest care should be 

 exercised that they do not further invade the home of the brook trout. The Commis- 

 sion realizes the importance of confining black bass to the waters in which they are 

 now found, and entrusts the planting of the fish only to its own men. Desirable as 

 the black bass is, as the universal game fish of the people, the spread of it should be 

 checked, in spite of the desire constantly showing itself to plant the fish in yet new 

 waters, by those who do not understand the harm that may come from it. To all 

 such this is written as a warning. 



A. N. CHENEY, 



State Fish Cultttrist. 



