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were planted in public waters in the vicinity of Cold Spring Harbor and 

 Riverhead. 



The eggs hatched in from six to ten days in water at 48 degrees Fahr. 



On April 2 2d Foreman Walters had one assistant at Havre de Grace, 

 Md., to receive eggs of this fish from the U. S. Bureau of Fisheries. The 

 white perch spawns at Havre de Grace in large numbers, but it is not always 

 easy to collect good eggs. 



Pike Perch 



On April 26th Foreman Scriba wrote that he had finished taking pike 

 perch eggs at Constantia. He had 754 quarts at the hatchery and had sent 

 ninety quarts to the Caledonia hatchery. The total number of eggs taken 

 was in ,020,000. He caught at one haul of the bag net in Scriba Creek over 

 10,000 fish. They were the largest run of fish he had ever seen. 



Pike perch were planted in Chautauqua Lake annually beginning in 

 1903. The first application was for 500,000 fry and was delivered from 

 Caledonia May 12, 1903. There were two applications in 1904 calling for 

 750,000 fry. In 1905, 500,000 fry were planted on the applications of W. 

 H. Knapp and W. Van Wert. In 1906, 1,000,000 were introduced on 

 applications from the same two persons and in 1907 these applicants 

 received 200,000 more. In 1908 there were three applications aggregating 

 2,500,000. The total plant of pike perch up to 1908 was 5,450,000. In 

 1907 Mr. R. R. Brown took one pike perch in a pound net. Two were taken 

 in a similar net in 1908, the larger one weighing between four and five 

 pounds. 



Blue Pike 



R. R. Brown obtained twenty-four quarts of eggs of the lot taken at 

 Dunkirk in May ; they were supplied with lake water for a short time but 

 with artesian water most of the time. In the artesian water they did not 

 thrive so well as in the lake water. 



On May 15, 1909, Mr. R. R. Brown had four men taking eggs at Dun- 

 kirk. The fishermen were not using very much small mesh netting; he 

 carried twenty-four quarts of eggs back to the hatchery with him. The 

 eggs could not be hatched in the well water because the excess of air carried 

 them out of the jars. 



