248 REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONERS OF FISHERIES, GAME AND FORESTS. 



netting the lake to obtain eggs, a large proportion of the fish weigh from six to ten 

 pounds each. The work of hatching whitefish from eggs obtained in the interior 

 waters of the State is now in its infancy, with every prospect of growing to far larger 

 proportions then when the State was dependent upon the Great Lakes for whitefish 

 ova. Conditions, over which man has no control, are always arising, which prevent 

 pike-perch from running into the streams where they may be taken for spawning 

 purposes, and smelt running in from the sea to fresh water streams for the same 

 purpose, and shad, too, fail on occasions to come up the river past the nets which 

 almost fence in the river and fence out the migratory fish, but the whitefish promise to 

 furnish an abundant supply of eggs annually to keep up the supply of this fish in 

 State waters and possibly to supply new waters with this choice food fish. Whitefish 

 spawn in November and December, and average 35,000 eggs per fish. The eggs are 

 semi-bouyant, non-adhesive and one-eighth of an inch in diameter. In water that is 

 thirty-four degrees, they hatch in 150 days. 



The whitefish is not taken with hook and line and so I do not add a description of 

 it, as the colored drawings will serve the purpose of printed words. 



A. N. CHENEY, 



State Fish Culturtst. 



'NOT ALL'S FISH THAT COMETH TO NET." 



