3IO FIFTEENTH ANNUAL REPORT OF THE 



He thinks he can readily take a million or more eggs in 1910. The work 

 at Stony Island produced little or no results, although it was under the 

 charge of one of our most active and experienced foremen, Frank Redband. 



Dunkirk has become a somewhat important collecting ground for this 

 Commission for blue pike and lake herring. Mr. R. R. Brown, Mr. Frank 

 Redband and Mr. George F. Scriba have all been engaged recently in taking 

 eggs of one or the other species named, and it will be noted that a number 

 of millions of fry of these important food fishes have been planted in the 

 lake at Dunkirk. Thus far the work has been merely experimental. It has 

 been carried far enough to demonstrate the importance of continuing it on a 

 much larger scale. 



A new feature in egg collecting originated at the Oneida station in the 

 fall of 1909, when Mr. Scriba set his nets for the capture of the ciscoe so 

 famous as a food fish in Oneida lake. Mr. Scriba secured about seven mil- 

 lions of these eggs, and they are now in process of hatching in the hatchery 

 at Constantia. But for a sudden, violent and long continued storm, there 

 was little doubt that Foreman Scriba would have obtained all the eggs of 

 that species that he could conveniently handle. The eggs are very small, 

 about as large as eggs of the common pike perch, pinkish in color, resembling 

 in this respect the eggs of wild brook trout. They are hatched in the Chase 

 jars the same as whitefish eggs, and presumably have about the same period 

 of incubation. As this fish will take the hook, it is destined to form a very 

 notable addition to our annual output. This fish is one of those that is so 

 frequently attacked by lampreys in the summer months when it is often 

 seen floating at the surface of the lake, dead or dying, and bearing the scar 

 on the side which shows the point of attachment of the blood-sucking 

 lamprey. 



The supply of brook trout eggs bought from commercial hatcheries 

 in 1909 was somewhat smaller than usual, although the requirements of 

 most of the trout stations were greater than before. This was due to the 

 courtesy of the Southside Sportsmen's Club of Long Island, and especially 

 its president, Mr. George P. Slade, in furnishing our Cold Spring Harbor 

 station with about three millions of choice eggs of brook trout. The Cold 

 Spring Harbor station also obtained nearly a million brook trout eggs from 

 its stock fish. 



