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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 first, each year. 



Applications for tomcods must be filed on or before January first. 



Pike-perch and muskallonge applications may be filed as late as April first, and applications 

 for black bass as late as May first. 



Most of 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 muskallonge, 

 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 can not 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. 



Instructions for Transporting and Planting ^Iocmg Ti$i). 



Brook, brown, rainbow and Loch Leven trout should be planted in small rivulets tributary 

 to the larger stream to be stocked. From the rivulets they will work down as they grow, into 

 the main stream. 



Lake trout should be planted among boulders or rocks on a shoal in mid-lake, very near 

 to deep water, into which the young trout will find their way. In the absence of such shoals 

 with rocks to afford hiding places for the young trout, they may be planted on natural spawning 

 beds, when they are known. 



In transporting young trout if they come to the surface of the water in the cans, it is a sign 

 of exhaustion, and the water should be frequently aerated by dipping it from the can in a 

 dipper and letting it fall into it again from a considerable height. It is safer to aerate the water 

 placed in the cans at the hatchery than to add fresh water during the journey, the qualities of 

 which are unknown. Should the water in the cans become warm, the temperature should be 

 reduced by the addition of ice broken into small pieces. 



