MASSACHUSETTS (Cont. ) 



5. Salter Brook Trout Investigations. (FA: F-5-R) 



Objectives are to determine whether it is feasible to stock Cape Cod tidal 

 streams with hatchery trout, in relation to the stocking of typical freshwater 

 streams, and, if so, to determine the most satisfactory method, as to season and 

 size, of stocking these streams. The project involves the tagging and release of 

 16, 000 brook trout in five experimental streams, and the sampling of populations 

 and movements of same through electrofishing, two-way fish traps, and creel 

 censuses. 



Bureau of Wildlife Research and Management cooperating; Five Cape Cod 

 trout streams; began April 1949, to close March 1956; $5,000; John H. Ryther, 

 Leader. 



Address inquiries to: John H. Ryther, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute, 

 Woods Hole, Mass. 



6. Trout Pond Reclamation. 



The purpose is to reclaim, over a period of years, most of the ponds in the 

 State which qualify as trout habitat. Rotenone is employed in eradicating existing 

 populations, and the ponds are restocked with brook, brown, or rainbow trout. 

 Alewives have been stocked in combination with rainbows. 



Statewide; began September 1950, continuing; James W. Mullan, Leader. 



Address inquiries to: James W. Mullan, Aquatic Biologist, Phillips Wild- 

 life Laboratory, Upton, Mass. 



7. Stream Investigations. (FA:F-1-R) 



Primary purposes are to determine to what extent major strearn systems may 

 be classed as trout or warm-water streams; what is the actual nature and extent of 

 the fishery they siipport; and the extent of management improvennents that can be 

 instituted to improve the trout fisheries. Trout to be stocked in the Merrimac and 

 Ipswich drainages are being marked. Creel censuses will be operated. Summer 

 inventories are made with a shocker and with chemicals. 



Statewide; began October 1951, planned for 5 years; $22,000; Lewis C. 

 Schlotterbeck, Leader. 



Address inquiries to: Lewis C. Schlotterbeck, Phillips Wildlife Laboratory, 

 Upton, Mass. 



8. Inventory of the Striped Bass Fishery of Massachusetts. (FA: F-4-R)* 



The objective of the project is to obtain basic information on the life history, 

 migration and population of striped bass in the coastal waters. Creel census, 

 tagging, seining, and other netting will be done. The project will be coordinated 

 with other striped bass projects being conducted in several other States. 



Began February 1954, planned for 3 years; $12,572; J. Arthur Posgay, Leader. 



Address inquiries to: William A. Tompkins, as in No. 1 above. 



University of Massachusetts 



1. Fish Management of a Marginal Trout Pond. 



The objective of this project is to deternriine how effective and productive man- 

 agement for trout in a marginal pond can be accomplished. Growth studies on each 

 of the species are being made; also, a continuous creel census of both ice and 

 summer fishing is being conducted. 



Division of Fisheries and Game cooperating; Mt. Toby Demonstration Forest - 

 Sunderland; began October 1948, continuing; $60; R. E. Trippensee, Leader. 



Address inquiries to: Dr. R. E. Trippensee, Professor of Wildlife Manage- 

 ment, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Mass. 



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