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Scriba would use io-foot trap nets with leaders 40 rods long, also 8-foot 

 trap nets with leaders of the same length. He would also use one good 

 pound net. 



On March 12th the whitefish in the Adirondack hatchery were just 

 beginning to show signs of hatching. On April 15th the fish were coming 

 out nicely, and Mr. Otis planned to place a million and a half in Lake Placid, 

 500,000 in Mirror Lake and 760,000 each in Big Clear, Little Clear and Hoel 

 Pond, besides filling applications for 1,075,000 sent from the office. 



In 1909 it was determined by Foreman Scriba that the whitefish in 

 Canandaigua Lake cannot be successfully kept in crates, and the plan was 

 definitely abandoned. He proposed to use so many nets, both traps and 

 pounds, as to make the capture of the fish practically certain. 



In fishing the various lakes containing whitefish and lake trout it is 

 always desirable to have protectors on the grounds to prevent the theft of 

 fish and the destruction of nets by poachers. 



Lake Herring 



The work at Dunkirk, in the fall of 1909, was placed in charge of Fore- 

 man Redband. The season was a poor one yielding only forty-nine quarts 

 of eggs. Storms interrupted the work almost continually, a gale of wind 

 blowing every day for a week. The fishermen could not go out for a period 

 of ten days. 



Cisco 



Eggs were obtained from the common cisco of Oneida Lake by Foreman 

 Scriba in November. The first were taken November 14th and additional 

 collections November 15th, 19th and 24th. A storm broke up the work at 

 the height of the season and lasted five days, after which no more cisco were 

 seen. The number taken was 6, 695, 000,. being 51. J quarts, measuring 130, 

 000 eggs to the quart. Thirteen eggs measure a lineal inch. The eggs 

 were pale pink in color resembling those of wild brook trout in this respect. 



Tullibee 



Foreman Scriba was told by some of the protectors, who have taken up 

 nets in Oneida Lake containing tullibee, that if any of the fish were scaled 



