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The general situation as concerns this species is discussed else- 

 where in this paper (pp. 273-275). In the Lake George report, Tit- 

 comb says of this fish : " In response to a public demand, landlocked 

 salmon have been planted annually in the lake : 15,000 or 20,000 and 

 sometimes more have been put in the lake or in the tributary 

 streams for a long period of years. Reports indicate that the results 

 have been unsatisfactory, an average of about ten mature salmon 

 being caught from the lake each year. The salmon are stream 

 spawners, and the fish have usually been planted in the trout 

 streams tributary to the lake. It is their habit to remain in the 

 streams until they are from a year to a year and a half old, or 

 until they are eight or nine inches in length. During this period 

 they have a line of red spots along the lateral line, and many 

 anglers make the mistake of catching them for trout. Some of the 

 streams are fished very hard, and these immature salmon respond 

 to the lure of the fly fisherman more readily than do the native 

 trout. It is probable that a large proportion of the fish which reach 

 six inches in length are killed by the angler before they have an 

 opportunity to reach the lake." 



He refers to one stream where to reach the lake they have to 

 run the gauntlet for the last mile in a comparatively small channel 

 of still water inhabited by " northern pike " and other spring-raised 

 fishes to reach the portions of the lake which are congenial to them. 

 It is stated that this stream is the most important tributary of the 

 lake for landlocked salmon and that it is reported that an occasional 

 mature salmon has been seen there in the fall of the year, evidently 

 having returned for the spawning function but never in sufficient 

 numbers to indicate that they have become established in the lake. 



Titcomb was of the opinion that improvements would follow if 

 the young salmon were planted in one or two streams and these 

 streams kept closed to all fishing, but regarded it as a still better 

 procedure to rear them up to a length of eight or ten inches, " the 

 size when they naturally leave the streams," and then to plant them 

 in the lake. 



Keil ('21) stated that if really good results are to be expected 

 from planting landlocked salmon in deep lakes containing no 

 permanent tributary streams, the fish must be held, regardless of 

 size, until they have passed the parr stage and begin to take on 

 the silvery coloration of the smolt. In a discussion of Keil's paper 

 Mr. Titcomb, among other things said : 



" Some of you know the difficulties of getting landlocked salmon 

 introduced 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 out as high as 100,000 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 



