A SURVEY OF GAME FISH CONDITIONS IN OHIO 



By Dr. Raymond C. Osburn 



Ohio State University 

 Coltimhus, Ohio 



This paper contains some of the results of a partial survey 

 of the waters of the state, made by the Ohio Bureau of Fish 

 and Game during the summer of 1920. The work was con- 

 ducted by a scientific research party, temporarily employed by 

 the Bureau for the purpose of the survey. The writer was 

 in charge of the investigations and associated with him were 

 Dr. C. L. Turner, of Beloit College, and Messrs. E. L. Wick- 

 lifif, Walter C. Kraatz and L. H. Tiffany, instructors at the 

 Ohio State University. The members of the staff were 

 selected because of their special training in different phases 

 of the work and for their ability to cooperate satisfactorily. 

 The whole summer's program was placed in my hands with 

 the exception that Mr. A. C. Baxter, Chief of the Bureau, 

 indicated certain waters which he especially desired us to 

 examine. 



We began our work on July 16th, the first day we were 

 free from our college duties, and continued without interrup- 

 tion until September 15th. This gave us three full months in 

 the field, at the time best suited for studying the food and other 

 conditions of growth of the young game fish. As the breeding 

 season was later than usual in Ohio, the young bass and crappie 

 were barely off the nest at the time we began to work, and in 

 fact, many of them did not appear until later. The bluegill 

 and common sunfish had not hatched at this time. 



The characteristic game fishes of the inland waters of Ohio 



[*This paper by Dr. Raymond C. Osburn and the three which follow, namely, 

 "Food of Young Small-Mouth Bass in Lake Erie," by Edward L. Wickliff; "Food of 

 Young Large-Mouth Black Bass in some Ohio Waters," by Dr. C. L. Turner and W. C. 

 Kraatz; and "The Gizzard Shad in Relation to Plants and Game Fishes," by L. H. 

 Tiffany, constitute some preliminary results of a fishery survey in Ohio in the summer 

 of 1920.] 



