20 DEPARTMENT OF GAME AND FISHERIES No. 9 



(b) Kamloops trout — 



This variety of rainbow trout is native to a number of lakes in the interior of 

 British Columbia. It is an excellent sporting fish and may be taken on the fly and 

 by trolling. Excepting during hot summer weather they are usually taken near the 

 surface. One important characteristic is that they show very little tendency, if any, 

 to migrate from the lakes in which they are planted. 



Speckled trout lakes supplied with good tributary streams are considered 

 suitable for Kamloops trout. 



Eighty thousand fingerlings of this species were planted during the year. 



Returns from previous plantings in Echo Lake (Muskoka) and a small lake 

 adjacent to Lake Timagami, are, we hope, forerunners of greater success to be 

 achieved from the distribution of this important variety to a number of our lakes. 



LAND-LOCKED SALMON: 



The Department was unable to secure any eggs of this species from the Pro- 

 vince of Quebec or elsewhere. The land-locked salmon hatchery at St. Felicien, 

 Quebec, has not operated for some time. 



A small number of fry of the Atlantic salmon, a closely related species, were 

 planted on an experimental basis. 



A few excellent specimens of land-locked salmon planted in Skeleton Lake, 

 Muskoka District, have been caught by angling. 



LAKE TROUT: 



There was an increase in the distribution of eyed eggs and fry over the number 

 distributed in the preceding year amounting to 7 per cent. There was a decrease 

 in the distribution of fingerlings amounting to 13.6 per cent. For the egg collection, 

 the Department depends on the co-operation of the fishermen and the work of our 

 own spawntaking crews. Stormy weather in the fall, either continuously or inter- 

 mittently, interferes with the work; this condition was particularly detrimental 

 during the fall of 1937. 



WHITEFISH: 



There was a decrease of approximately 9.6 per cent in the distribution of 

 whitefish as compared with that of the previous year; this was due to the reduced 

 collection of spawn from the North Channel and Lake Ontario whitefish. 



HERRING: 



The large decrease in the distribution of herring fry was due in the main 

 to the reduction in the collection of eggs from Lake Ontario herring and a greater 

 reduction in the collection from Lake Erie herring, the latter collection being prac- 

 tically negligible. There are very hopeful signs that the population of herring in 

 Lake Erie is gradually increasing after the disastrous decline in 1925. If the present 

 population is permitted to spawn at least once, and preferably twice, before they 

 are taken commercially, there will be a decided increase of this very important 

 commercial species. As a result large collections of spawn should be available in 

 future years. 



YELLOW PICKEREL: 



There was a decrease of 12.4 per cent in the distribution of pickerel fry as 

 compared with that of the preceding year, due primarily to the reduced collection 

 of pickerel spawn in the southern portion of Lake Huron. 



Following the usual practice, two million eyed eggs were handled by the 

 Sparrow Lake hatchery, the fry being distributed to suitable areas of Sparrow Lake. 



