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tliem with fish. In this department the Commission is 

 doing a great work. Last year they operated five hatch- 

 eries, and the coming year two more will be added. This 

 will give the Commission seven hatcheries, all capable of 

 producing excellent results. These hatcheries are at Cale- 

 donia, Cold Spring Harbor, Adirondack, Sacandaga, Fulton 

 Chain, Clayton, and Chautauqua, and their importance is 

 in the order I have given them. 



The total outi)ut last year of the five then in operation 

 was 31,489,638 fry. Of this number there were 3,099,900 

 brook trout, 927,500 brown trout, 5,329,000 lake trout, 

 863,000 California trout, 1,350 quinnat salmon, 78,000 land- 

 locked salmon, 687,188 salmon, 4,600,000 smelts, 30,000 

 shrimps, 4,100,000 tomcod, 1,900,000 white-fish, 6,053,200 

 shad, 3,780,000 frost-fish, and 2,625 adult fish of various 

 kinds. 



This year's distribution will be much larger than ever 

 before, and an increase of at least 30 or 40 per cent, is 

 looked for. 



The entire distribution for the past ten years was, in 

 round numbers, 203,363,600 fry, of which the principal 

 distribution was of lake trout, brook trout, and shad; 

 39,055,000 of lake trout were distributed, 18,140,000 brook 

 trout, and 81,138,000 of shad. 



The correspondence of the Commission from various 

 l)arts of the State shows conclusively that artificial propa- 

 gation and stocking have been wonderfully successful. In 

 spite of continuous fishing, consequent to the rapid in- 

 crease of i^opulation, the Adirondack streams, stocked 

 yearly by the Commission, are full of trout, the large lakes 

 in the central part of the State afford excellent lake trout 

 fishing, and shad and salmon are increasing in numbers in 

 the Hudson every year. The Commissioners recently suc- 

 ceeded in obtaining appropriations for the necessary fish- 

 ways in the last-named river, and as soon as they can be 

 built the work of the Commission in this stream will show 



