150 REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONERS OF 



STATE OF NEW YORK. 

 Fisheries, Game and Forests Commission, 



Albany, N. Y. 



Circular No. 2. 



Information for all vl)o Appl^ for ^fafe FisI). 



All persons who desire to obtain fish or fish fry from the Fisheries, Game and Forests 

 Commission, for planting in public waters of the State, for under no circumstances are fish 

 furnished by the State to be planted in private waters, should apply to the Secretary of the 

 Commission at the office in Albany, for blanks to be filled out for this purpose, at the same time 

 stating the kind or kinds of fish desired. Three different blanks are furnished. Blanks for trout 

 fry, blanks for fish fry (including all fish furnished by the Commission other than trout and black 

 bass), and blanks for black bass. A separate blank must be filled for each kind of fish applied 

 for. All applications for trout fry (including brook, brown, rainbow and lake trout), whitefish, 

 ciscoes, Adirondack frost fish and smelts, must be filed in the office at Albany on or before 

 February 1st, each year. 



Applications for tomcods must be filed on or before January 1st. 



Pike-perch and mascalonge applications may be filed as late as April 1st, and applications 

 for black bass as late as May 1st. 



Most 0/ the species of the salmon family reared by the State spawn in the fall and are 

 hatched the following spring, and are ready for delivery from March to May, depending upon the 

 season, and the situation of the hatchery. The spring spawning fishes, like the mascalonge, pike- 

 perch and black bass, may be delivered in May and June. Applicants for fish are notified in 

 advance of the shipments of fish. assigned to them. Applications for fish received after the dates 

 fixed by the Commission for that purpose, must be rejected for that year, as assignments once 

 made are final. The clerical work of filing applications and assigning millions of fish is so great 

 that it cannot be reviewed for reassignment before distribution begins. 



By law, no fish, fish fry or spawn, other than trout, salmon and frost fish, can be planted 

 in the waters of the Adirondack region, and the penalty for violating the law is $500. The law 

 further provides that no trout of any kind or land-locked salmon shall be taken from any waters 

 of the State for stocking a private pond or stream. 



A. N. CHENEY, 



State Fish Culturist. 



