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season. Last spring, in May, the Oneida hatchery had 1,200 quarts. 

 each quart containing 150,000 eggs; that hatchery was completely Idled 

 with pike-perch eggs, and there was a surplus of 300 quarts taken to 

 Caledonia and hatched there. 



Naturally we did not deliver all our pike-perch to the Great Lakes. 

 We know that the planting in the inland lakes, small and large, have 

 keen extremely successful, and the anglers are delighted with the re- 

 sults obtained from the planting of the pike-perch fry. 



Many of our lakes furnish excellent fishing, as. for instance, in 

 Chautauqua, where no pike-perch were ever found before we planted 

 them there. I could name a dozen lakes throughout Xew York state 

 in all parts of it, east and west, which are now open to the angler. 



There is no doubt about the success of planting pike-perch fry or 

 lake herring in the state of Xew York, We have a substitute for the 

 lake herring and a very good one, ton, in the tullibee — a rather small 

 but beautifully-shaped lake herring. It is the same as the tullibee 

 which was originally taken in Onondaga Lake. It has apparently left 

 Onondaga Lake because of the pollution of the water by the manufac- 

 turers. Or it may have been a resident of Oneida Lake and was not 

 discovered by the expert fishermen there until recently. We hope next 

 fall to take enough eggs in Oneida Lake near the station to till the 

 hatching jars. 



Mr. Meehan : \\ e have been very successful in Pennsylvania in plant- 

 ing pike-perch fry averaging about three days old, in the smaller lakes 

 of Pennsylvania, which are all very small except two or three, at least 

 they are small compared with the larger inland lakes of Xew York. But 

 a very remarkable example of the success is shown in Conneaut Lake, 

 the largest lake in Pennsylvania, about four miles long and a mile wide. 

 Pike-perch were planted there in the Sll's, and subsequently until about 

 two years ago no one knew how to catch them. It developed that they 

 were there when we set our traps for muskallunge, for the traps were 

 pretty well filled with pike-perch every day. We have taken eggs there 

 for the last two years, obtaining from 4,000,000 to 6,000,000. Last year 

 reports came to me of over 1,500 pike-perch caught with rod ami line 

 at Conneaut Lake. 



Mr. G. H. Graham, Springfield, Mass.: 1 would like to ask Dr. 

 Bean if he considers it a good plan to plant pike-perch in lakes in Xew 

 England that at the present time contain black bass and pickerel." 



Dr. Bean: We do it in Xew Y>rk. because the pike-pefch, black 

 bass and pickerel are natural associates. You will find them almost 

 everywdiere, throughout our state at least, always associated. On the 

 assumption that nature knows best what fish will live together in har- 

 mony, we follow nature; but we never plant pike-perch in a lake which- 

 contains trout, or any member of the salmon family. We reserve the 

 pike-perch for bass lakes and yellow perch and pickerel lakes. 



Mr. Meehan : That is the system with us. We find that the three fish 

 have practically their own domains, the bass being in one. the pickerel 



