20 REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONER OF FISHERIES. 
in the Port Clinton and Toledo fields. Of these collections 305,450,000 
green and eyed eggs were furnished for stocking various State and 
national hatcheries, and the remainder produced 56,400,000 fry for 
local distribution. 
Under different management fish-cultural operations were con- 
ducted on a more extensive scale than formerly at the Cape Vincent, 
N. Y., station, resulting in a material increase in the output of the 
commercial fishes of Lake Ontario. A cooperative arrangement was 
effected with the New York Conservation Commission for the col- 
lection of eggs of the whitefish, lake herring, and lake trout, and 
new fields were located and operated during the season. The Bureau 
was accorded the use, without cost, of the traps and nets owned by 
the State, and in a number of instances spawn takers who had been 
in the service of the State for a number of years were temporarily 
employed by the Bureau to take eggs for the Cape Vincent station 
after the State hatcheries had been filled. After a thorough in- 
vestigation of the various fields, it was decided that eggs of the 
whitefish, lake herring, and lake trout could be procured on a more 
economical basis by purchasing from commercial fishermen on the 
same basis that was paid by the State, namely, 50 cents per quart. 
The collection of whitefish eggs was undertaken at Three Mile Bay, 
N. Y., at fisheries operated in the vicinity of the Cape Vincent sta- 
tion, and at the Fulton Chain Lakes, at Old Forge, N. Y. The 
work was conducted in cooperation with the State employees. The 
egg collections at these points numbered 18,354,000, the largest part 
of them being from Fulton Chain Lakes, where 16,254,000 were 
obtained. The number of fry hatched was 18,000,000, which were 
planted in Lake Ontario in the vicinity of Cape Vincent. 
Lake herring eggs to the number of 32,650,000 were secured in the 
vicinity of Three Mile Bay, N. Y., and 51,350,000 from Great Sodus 
Bay, at Sodus Point, N. Y. These eggs yielded 79,200,000 fry. 
Lake-trout operations were conducted at Charity Shoals and Stony 
Island, N. Y., and at Horse Shoe Island, Amhurst Island, and Pigeon 
Island, Canada. Severe winds prevailed during the entire spawning 
season, but the results of the work were good. 
Early in the spring new fields for the collection of pike-perch eggs 
were located at Black Lake, near Pope Mills, N. Y., and on the 
Oswegatchie River, at Ogdensburg, N. Y.; and while the work was 
conducted on an experimental basis the outcome was satisfactory, a — 
total of 17,150,000 eggs being secured. 
There were transferred from other stations to Cape Vincent for 
development 4,500,000 eyed lake-trout eggs and 50,000,000 green pike~ 
perch eggs. The fry produced from all the species propagated 
during the year numbered 141,530,000. 
A peculiarly favorable combination of natural conditions existed 
during the spring in the vicinity of the Bureau’s Swanton station on 
Lake Champlain, and the work accomplished there in the propaga- 
tion of pike perch was the most successful in its history. The water 
in the lake prior to and during the spawning season was so low that 
it was impossible to utilize the inclosure prepared last year for the 
holding of immature pike perch to ripen, but under the circumstances 
there was no necessity for its use. 
Brood fish in very large numbers congregated early in spring at the 
mouth of the Missisquoi River, on which the station is located, and 
