120 



about the same length of time to absorb the umbilical 

 sac. The fry of the mascalonge when first hatched 

 are very helpless, and apparently a prey to every liv- 

 ing thing. 



This commission is giving considerable thought to 

 the C{uestion of providing food for fishes in wild waters, 

 as it believes that man}' failures to stock lakes and 

 streams are directly chargeable to a lack of proper food 

 for the planted fish. This subject is treated at some 

 length in the annual report of the commission now in 

 the hands of the printer. The steelhead trout men- 

 tioned in this paper are the first to be brought to New 

 York, and the}^ will be planted in one of the large 

 lakes in Northern New York and in Long Island 

 streams flowing into the sea. The vScotch sea trout 

 are the first to be brought to this country and will not 

 be distributed at present. 



The total output offish, of all kinds, will be consid- 

 erably larger this 3'ear, when all the work is finished, 

 than last year, when under the old Fishery Commission 

 and the new Fisheries, Game, and Forest Commission 

 combined a grand total of 196,247,840 were planted. 



