114 Thirty-fourth Annual Meeting. 
The reasons I have given account for the success had in fish 
culture in Rhode Island. 
Mr. Whish: — Let there be no mistakes about the conditions 
connected with the situation I have frankly described in New 
York state, with reference to our hatcheries. We cannot raise 
brood brook trout. There is no lack of water supply in the 
several hatcheries, with the exception of one. The other ponds 
have some of them wooden walls with gravel and sand bottom, 
and others stone walls with gravel and sand bottom and some are 
wholly of cement. 
When I refer to the loss of the brook trout, I mean of course 
the old fashioned speckled trout, the fontinalis, the trout that 
belongs in your swift, living water, and I mean no other fish. 
The situation is known to at least one scientific man of the 
United States Commission, and we will very gladly point it out 
to anybody else who desires to look into it. 
The condition is not a theoretical one, at all; it is a mighty 
serions one, and I sincerely hope it will never confront any other 
state, though I fear it will. 
