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ground. Four cement ponds or races for rearing trout have been 

 built. The water flows from one set to the other and thence into 

 a newly constructed earth pond, and in this way the capacity for 

 rearing trout fingerlings has been doubled. A new outside trough 

 has been erected, to give artesian water a longer run before enter- 

 ing the hatchery, thus overcoming the excess air which has here- 

 tofore been so troublesome. A new cement walk has been built 

 from the hatchery to the road. The grounds have been regraded 

 and seeded. High water last spring flooded the hatchery grounds 

 and the old trout ponds. The trout in the ponds were saved by 

 putting up sideboards. The new ponds are above this flood 

 mark. — Beported by G. E. Winchester, Foreman, Bemus Faint, 

 N. Y. 



Coi.b Spring Harbor Station. 

 A fine lot of brook trout eggs was collected from the ponds of 

 the Southside Sportsmen's Club, of Long Island, and these were 

 distributed among several of the State hatcheries. Nearly enough 

 brook trout and rainbow trout eggs were obtained from the 

 hatchery ponds to fill all the applications. 



The tomcod work was carried on as usual. Eggs were col- 

 lected in Peconic Bay, Long Island, from fish caught for the 

 markets. The small auxiliary hatchery on the shore of Cold 

 Spring Harbor added greatly to our output and gave room in the 

 main hatchery for other work. The tomcod fry were planted in 

 salt water bays of Long Island. 



A very large number of smelt eggs were obtained, and the per- 

 centage of fertilized eggs was greater than usual. Some yellow 

 perch eggs were hatched; but the jars were filled with smelt eggs 

 and the space for perch was limited. 



The lobster hatching at Montauk was more than ever success- 

 ful owing to the completion of the auxiliary hatchery on Fort 

 Pond Bay. There was no loss of eggs such as occurred in former 

 years in the old floating boxes. The number of fry was not so 

 large as in 1911 because the Connecticut fishermen did not bring 

 their lobsters to the Montauk market. A great many lobster eggs 

 were obtained from them last year. 



The number of eggs of scup and sea bass was much increased. 

 This work can be greatly enlarged by the use of a motor boat 



