330 FIFTEENTH ANNUAL REPORT OF THE 



Courtesies 



The Commission is indebted to the United States Bureau of Fisheries 

 for supplies of eggs of lake trout, landlocked salmon and other species, 

 and especially since it has become so difficult to obtain lake trout eggs from 

 our own waters. The bureau has a special arrangement with the State of 

 Michigan by which it is allowed to collect whitefish eggs in the Detroit 

 River, where the fish are kept in crates until they become ripe. The 

 number of eggs taken by this means is usually very large. 



The landlocked salmon eggs furnished by the Bureau from Greenlake 

 Station, in Maine, were especially good, and resulted in the planting of about 

 28,000 fingerling salmon in Lake George, the only body of water which this 

 Commission considers sufficiently suited to the purpose of systematic, con- 

 tinued stocking with this species of fish. 



Mr. E. Tinsley, Superintendent of Game and Fisheries, Toronto, again 

 permitted the representative of this Commission to collect lake trout eggs 

 in the open season in Meldrum Bay and vicinity. 



Numerous letters from various parts of the State, and from other States, 

 asking for information on fish cultural subjects, were answered by the Fish 

 Culturist. These related chiefly to the literature of fish culture, the names 

 and addresses of fish breeders, the presence of parasites in certain game fish, 

 and other matters pertinent to the work of the Department. 



The United States Bureau of Fisheries presented to the State 200,000 

 brook trout fry from its Cape Vincent station in order to make good the 

 damage which occurred at the Pleasant Valley Station through the tumor 

 disease and gill inflammation which caused serious loss at that place. 



The Commission is indebted to Mr. Chester K. Green, of Cape Vincent, 

 N. Y., for the loan of photographs of Fish Commissioners and early Fish 

 culturists who have been associated with the work of the State. 



In May, 1909, the Commission co-operated with Mr. Townsend, Director 

 of the New York Aquarium, in collecting calico bass in Kinderhook and 

 Nassau Lakes for the purpose of stocking a lake in Prospect Park, Brooklyn, 

 so as to have a source of supply for future State distribution. Owing to the 

 exceptionally warm weather and certain difficulties in the way of trans- 



