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there were no shad before. The result is you have 
abundance all over that country. 
As has been alluded to, the Hudson River has been 
stocked with fry, and the Connecticut River has been 
stocked with fry. After a certain length of time the 
Connecticut River ceased to be stocked and the Hudson 
River continued to be stocked, and the result has been 
that we have found fine fishing every year in the Hudson 
River, while the shad have almost disappeared in the 
Connecticut River, and yet the two rivers are only a few 
miles apart. This has been the effect of stocking with 
fry. Take the Chatauqua Lake, in which there was 
never any bull head until they were put in by the New 
York Commission. They are a very much abused fish, 
for in good water it is an admirable fish. To-day anyone 
can go out with a hook and line, into Lake Chatauqua 
and can take a good basket in a very short period. That 
was stocked by putting in the adult fish. Of course the 
bull head and the black bass are different from almost 
any other fish; they make their own spawning beds and 
take care of them during the process of incubation and 
they protect their young until they are large enough to 
protect themselves. Hence the New York Fish Com- 
mission have always stocked different lakes and different 
streams in this State by putting in the adult fish. Where 
you have a fish of that kind that will take care of its 
young, that will fight everything. away from the spawn, 
the sucker and everything that comes to eat it up, and 
will take care of it until the fry take care of themselves, 
there is no doubt that putting in the larger fish is a 
decided advantage. With the trout they do differently. 
Trout makes its spawning bed with its tail, deposits its 
eggs upon the sand, the male comes along and deposits 
the milk and they go away and leave it. The young fry 
is hatched by the water going over it. As they come 
out, nature has provided a little sac upon which it feeds 
until it is old enough to search for its own food. 
