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On May 25th Mr. R. R. Brown, of Bemus Point, stated that the blue 

 pike were dying in the hatchery from some unknown cause. It became 

 necessary to plant them early in Lake Erie at Dunkirk. 



Calico Bass 



During the week ending November 6, 1909, Foreman Winchester 

 collected 730 calico bass which were taken to the Linlithgo Station. Of 

 these, 200 were shipped to the director of the New York Aquarium to be 

 planted in one of the lakes in Prospect Park, Brooklyn. In this way a 

 large number of stock fish has been placed from which supplies of young 

 are expected for future distribution. 



Black Bass 



On May 6th Foreman Scriba began catching black bass in Oneida Lake. 



On July 23 Foreman Scriba had several thousand small mouthed bass, 

 running from ij inches to 2 inches in length, in the ponds at Constantia. 

 The fish were doing very well, scarcely any of them dying, although the 

 water at the time was very warm. 



Two nests of black bass were taken from one of the ponds of the Oneida 

 Hatchery on July 2d and furnished 15,000 fry. This date is about twenty 

 days after the date fixed in the law for the opening of the fishing season for 

 bass. Mr. G. Dexter, of Utica, wrote to the office to the effect that two 

 bass taken at Lewis Point on the 28th of Jul} 7 were full of spawn. 



On August 16, 1909, Mr. Arthur C. Ferguson, Game Protector, writing 

 about West Sand Lake and vicinity, said that in 1907 and 1908 the large 

 mouthed and small mouthed black bass bred in unusually large numbers. 

 Apparently the number of fish has become too great for the natural food 

 supply. 



The brood stock of bass, at the Linlithgo Station, was fed principally 

 upon minnows and suckers taken in the Hudson river and Roeliff-Jansen 

 Kill. An effort was made to obtain salt killifish from the Long Island 

 Station to supplement these sources of food. 



Black Bass Parasites 



In the summer of 1909, Judge Joseph I. Green, of Long Lake, sent to 

 the office for examination a piece of " grubby " bass, caught in the vicinity 



