Survey for Fish Production"Assist Forest People 



The State of New York has commenced the task of thorough investigation 

 of its resources for fish production. A Conservation Commission, created for 

 that purpose, commenced work in 1916, with the object of studying the State 

 fishing waters and has recently published a report of much seasonable interest, 

 containing as it does, not only information concerning the streams of Oneida 

 County, in that State, but also many suggestions about the rearing, planting 

 and protection of both fish and streams. Some such investigation should be made 

 in Montana. There are many obstacles to be overcome in a State so large as 



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this, but a thorough survey could be made of the principal rivers and streams 

 which could be gradually extended to affluents thereof, and in time could be 

 made to coa <^r remote lakes devoid of fish life. In the investigation of remote 

 streams and lakes the United States Forestry Department could be of much 

 aid, for the rangers go to the most hidden recesses of the mountains, and in 

 many instances have reported bodies of water in very remote places suitable 

 for stocking. 



A very complete report has been received by our Commission from District 

 Forester T. A. Fenn, covering all the land locked lakes and many of the un- 

 stocked streams found upon the forest reservations of the State which are 

 suitable for fry planting. This detailed report will be found appended hereto, 

 marked Exhibit C. 



It is not the present plan of your Commission to try to stock all the lakes 

 named, but rather to reach as soon as possible those most easy of access and 

 later to extend the work to as remote places as may be found advisable with the 

 available fry produced at our hatcheries. To properly stock the large number 

 of streams named or to keep up with demands from the many localities not on 

 Forest reservations will be more than present or contemplated facilities can 

 accomplish. We need more workers, more hatching room in hatcheries, and more 

 eggs to hatch. It should be possible to take a greater supply of native trout 

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