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well over 1,200 gallons per minute. During the year one million and nine 

 thousand (1,009,000) speckled trout fingerlings measuring from three to five 

 inches were successfully reared and distributed from this station, and it is 

 possible to rear at least one million and a half speckled trout from the egg stage 

 to the large or late fingerling stage. Suitable pond space is available for adult 

 fish from which spawn is obtained for supplying the station in question. 

 Distribution will be confined largely to Algoma and adjacent easterly districts. 

 Dorion Trout Rearing Station is seven miles from the village of Dorion, 

 located on the Canadian National and Canadian Pacific Railways. There are 

 good roads to the headwaters of Spring Creek on which the station is built and 

 the volume of water obtained is more or less phenomenal, being in the neighbour- 

 hood of 4,000 gallons per minute. The temperature and quality of this water 

 are also excellent. Distribution from this station will be confined to the District 

 of Thunder Bay and westerly districts. Present arrangements are such that 

 at least one million and a half speckled trout fingerlings may be handled there. 



A typical speckled trout pool. 



These facilities for the culture of trout which the Government has brought 

 into being provide for a possible distribution of five million fingerling and large 

 trout in the very near future, barring accidents and disease which fish, like all 

 other animals, are heir to. 



In 1930 the total distribution of speckled trout amounted to 2,592,199 

 approximately, and in 1931 to 2,842,840. 



Brown Trout 



The stocking policy regarding the experimental plantings of brown trout 

 as outlined in two previous annual reports is being followed, that is, brown 

 trout distribution will be restricted to definite locations investigated by our 

 biological staff and reported upon as suitable, in order that the success or failure 

 of their introduction may be properly studied and accounted for. 



The culture of brown trout is confined to the Provincial Fish Hatchery 

 at Mount Pleasant, where a permanent breeding stock is maintained. Facilities 



