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COURTESIES* 



The United States Bureau of Fisheries, at the request of the 

 Commission, shipped to the Adirondack Station, during the sum- 

 mer 40,000 black spotted trout eggs. These eggs produced 

 22,738 fingerlings. Of this number 2,000 were planted in 

 Meadow pond, Franklin county, and the remainder in Little 

 Green pond in the same county. 



At the request of Chester K. Green, Superintendent of the 

 United States Fisheries Station, Cape Vincent, N. Y., permits 

 were issued to Henry W. Marks and George E. Humphrey, both 

 of Cape Vincent, to fish for lake trout in the vicinity of 'Cape 

 Vincent from November 1 to November 20, 1911, both inclusive. 

 The object of this fishing is to take eggs of lake trout for devel- 

 opment at Cape Vincent, the fry to be distributed in New York 

 waters. 



On September 25th the foreman of the Cold Spring Harbor 

 station, by direction of the Commission, delivered eight large 

 male rainbow trout and twenty-five smaller males to the New 

 York Aquarium for exhibition purposes, and on October 26th the 

 foreman of the Linlithgo station delivered thirty short nosed 

 sturgeon to the Aquarium for the same purpose. 



Through the kindness of the Southside Sportsmens' Club of 

 Long Island, of which Mr. George P. Slade, of New York, is 

 president, our Long Island station was furnished with nearly 

 3,000,000 brook trout eggs of fine quality from the preserve 

 of the club. These eggs were developed to the eyed stage at Cold 

 Spring Harbor for further development and distribution from 

 the Caledonia and Adirondack hatcheries. 



On March 31st the foreman of the Cold Spring Harbor hatch- 

 ery planted 1,000,000 whitefish fry in Lake Hammersley, 

 Dutchess county, and on May 31st he planted 750,000 pikeperch 

 fry in Ronkonkoma lake, Suffolk county. These fish were given 

 to the Commission by the New York Aquarium. 



At the request of Barton A. Bean of the United States Na- 

 tional Museum two maskalonge each one foot in length, three rang- 

 ing from 18 inches to 36 inches, and one large specimen were 



