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  REPORT 
  OF 
  COMMISSIONER 
  OF 
  FISH 
  AND 
  FISHERIES. 
  

  

  NEW 
  YORK. 
  

  

  In 
  the 
  number 
  of 
  inland 
  waters 
  containing 
  food-fishes, 
  iu 
  the 
  number 
  

   of 
  cities 
  and 
  towns 
  affording 
  convenient 
  markets 
  for 
  products, 
  and 
  in 
  

   the 
  excellent 
  transportation 
  facilities, 
  the 
  fishermen 
  of 
  New 
  York 
  are 
  

   favorably 
  situated. 
  The 
  catch, 
  as 
  shown 
  in 
  the 
  appended 
  tables, 
  does 
  

   not 
  represent 
  the 
  productive 
  capacity 
  of 
  the 
  different 
  waters, 
  in 
  most 
  

   of 
  which 
  the 
  taking 
  of 
  fish 
  for 
  market 
  is 
  subject 
  to 
  more 
  or 
  less 
  restric- 
  

   tion, 
  owing 
  to 
  the 
  fact 
  that 
  the 
  lakes 
  and 
  rivers 
  are 
  annually 
  resorted 
  

   to 
  by 
  large 
  numbers 
  of 
  anglers, 
  for 
  the 
  attraction 
  of 
  whom 
  it 
  is 
  neces- 
  

   sary 
  that 
  the 
  supply 
  of 
  fish 
  be 
  maintained. 
  As 
  regards 
  the 
  total 
  

   output 
  of 
  its 
  interior 
  fisheries, 
  New 
  York 
  consequently 
  does 
  not 
  occupy 
  

   a 
  prominent 
  position 
  among 
  the 
  States 
  represented 
  in 
  the 
  canvass; 
  but 
  

   with 
  respect 
  to 
  the 
  yield 
  of 
  certain 
  species 
  this 
  State 
  surpasses 
  all 
  others. 
  

   It 
  is 
  the 
  only 
  one 
  in 
  which 
  there 
  is 
  a 
  special 
  muskellunge 
  fishery; 
  it 
  

   ranks 
  first 
  in 
  the 
  yield 
  of 
  smelt 
  and 
  lake 
  herring; 
  and 
  in 
  the 
  catch 
  of 
  

   whitefish 
  and 
  frogs 
  it 
  is 
  exceeded 
  only 
  by 
  Minnesota 
  and 
  Missouri, 
  

   respectively. 
  There 
  are 
  fourteen 
  lakes, 
  two 
  rivers, 
  and 
  .one 
  creek 
  

   covered 
  by 
  the 
  returns. 
  There 
  are 
  more 
  than 
  one 
  hundred 
  lakes 
  in 
  the 
  

   State 
  of 
  sufficient 
  size 
  and 
  importance 
  to 
  appear 
  on 
  good 
  maps, 
  but 
  on 
  

   most 
  of 
  them 
  there 
  is 
  either 
  no 
  fishing 
  at 
  all 
  or 
  it 
  is 
  of 
  an 
  uncommercial 
  

   character. 
  Bullheads 
  are 
  the 
  leading 
  fish 
  of 
  these 
  interior 
  waters 
  as 
  

   regards 
  quantity 
  taken, 
  but 
  the 
  muskellunge, 
  which 
  is 
  taken 
  in 
  large 
  

   numbers 
  in 
  Lake 
  (Jhautauqua, 
  ranks 
  first 
  in 
  value. 
  Other 
  prominent 
  

   products 
  are 
  black 
  bass, 
  lake 
  trout, 
  smelt, 
  whitefish, 
  yellow 
  perch, 
  and 
  

   frogs. 
  

  

  