really good results are to be expected from the planting of these 

 varieties in deep lakes containing no permanent tributary streams, 

 the fish must be held, regardless of size, until they have passed the 

 parr stage and begun to take on the silvery coloration of the smolt. 

 That this is so, the writer has proved to his own satisfaction; but 

 his research work along these lines has not been carried far enough, 

 so that a reasonable explanation may be offered to substantiate the 

 truth of this statement. Experiments are being carried out this 

 summer at both Tuxedo and Sterling Lakes in an endeavor to clear 

 up some of the complex biological and physiological factors involved 

 in this problem, and it is hoped that by another summer many of 

 these little-understood morphological changes in the life of these 

 fishes will have been solved. 



Discussion. 

 Mb. J. W. TiTCOMB, Albany, N. Y. : Mr. Kell is probably the only 

 man in this country who has successfully bred landlocked salmon under 

 domestication. For a number of generations, he has done it very success- 

 fully. I have a letter here from him in which he speaks of the results 

 with salmon and steelhead trout in lakes : 



Since we have put smelt and shiners into our lakes, the trout and 

 salmon are running as high as 5 pounds. Sterling Lake, which I men- 

 tioned, belongs to the Midvale Steel Co., and lies west of here about four 

 miles. It is about the same size as our large lake (2 miles long by % 

 wide) but the shores are entirely wild and covered with heavy timber. 

 It is clear as crystal and about 150 feet deep. It has no inlets, but a 

 large stream runs out at all times. In the spring of 1919 I planted 

 3,000,000 smelt fry in this lake and in the fall of that year took over 

 4,000 salmon and steelhead averaging about 6 inches. This spring these 

 fish were being taken as heavy as 4% pounds, and one day when I was 

 fishing alone I caught four running from 2% to 4 pounds. These salmon 

 in Sterling Lake are the finest proportioned fish I have ever seen, plump 

 as butter, and as bright as a bar of silver. I thought that galmon could 

 not possibly be finer than those I caught at the Averill Lakes in Vermont, 

 but these are far better. The chemical analysis of the water at Sterling 

 :;s entirely different from that of Tuxedo. 



Some of you know the diflSculties of getting landlocked salmon intro- 

 duced into your waters. The State of New York has been planting salmon 

 in its lakes for the past 25 or 30 years, and today there is not a public 

 lake in the State where we have any salmon fishing. Every year from 

 20,000 to 30,000 are hatched, and during the last four years we have put 

 otit as high as 100,000 landlocked salmon, chiefly in Lake George, with 

 an annual yield of perhaps 10 adult salmon a year to the anglers. The 

 fish were formerly planted in the lake, and later in the tributary streams, 

 where I believe they should be planted. A good many were caught from 

 the tributary streams when they still had the red spots which they carry 

 until eight or nine inches long. After the investigation we decided it 

 was useless to attempt to stock a lake like that, unless we could carry 

 the fish through the smolt stage. The State today has one lake entirely 

 under its control, posted and screened, where they have been planted for 



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