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5. Recommendations. In harmony with the preceding sug- 

 gested policy it is recommended that: (a) Young Common Sun- 

 fishes and Perch can be spared from Cedar Pond and should be 

 added here. A large number is desirable because of the intensive 

 fishing in Hessian Pond, (b) Chain Pickerel and Small-mouth 

 Blackbass should be encouraged in these waters by planting, 

 (c) That Golden Shiners be planted. A supply of the young fish 

 can easily be secured from Cedar Pond. These are needed as food 

 for the predaceous fish. 



Lake Number Five. 



1. Physical Conditions and Vegetation. A shallow lake, 

 formed by damming Queensboro Brook. Deepest water found 

 was about twenty feet. The upper end of the lake is very shallow, 

 abounding in water plants, Sparganium, Potamogeton and large 

 patches of Nymphcea. July temperature, at depth of twenty feet, 

 53° Fahrenheit. A formerly cultivated farm, now flooded. 



2. Kinds and Abundance of Fish. Fallfish, Semotihis cor- 

 poralis (Mitchill), abundant about mouth of stream; Golden 

 Shiner, abundant; Bridled Minnow, Notropis bifrenatus (Cope), 

 abundant; Common Shiner, Notropis cornutus (Mitchill), not 

 abundant; Common Sucker, Catostomus commersonii (Lacepede), 

 probably abundant; Hornpout, Ameiurus nebulosus (LeSueur), 

 one taken; Eastern Pickerel, abundant; Long-eared Sunfish, 

 abundant. 



3. Conditions for Fish. A shallow warm water pond, with 

 an abundance of water plants in the upper end. Shallow water 

 breeding conditions favorable for fish. Stream inlet available 

 for stream breeding kinds of fish. 



4. Policy for the Water. As a part of the Queensboro 

 Brook system, these waters should be stocked with trout, as this 

 is one of the best brook water systems within the Park area. It 

 deserves to be carefully preserved as an example of that kind of a 

 beautiful and valuable natural resource. 



5. Recommendations, (a) That the Lewis and Queensboro 

 Brook drainage system be reserved as a trout system, (b) That 

 Lake No. 5 be stocked and managed to harmonize with this plan. 



