192 



TWELFTH ANNUAL REPORT OF THE 



Pleasant Valley. 



Brook trout fingerlings 132,890 



Brown trout fry 150,000 



Brown trout fingerlings 40,000 



Lake trout fry 500 , 000 



Lake trout fingerlings 531,225 



Lake trout yearlings 25,008 



Rainbow trout fingerlings 91,000 



Total 1,470,223 



CARP 



Notes ^pon Certain Fisfyes of New *Jorl$ 



Carp. 



While the Commission is sometimes asked for practical information 

 about carp culture, its attention is more frequently drawn to injuries 

 charged to this fish in lakes and rivers containing game fish. The carp is 

 a big species, and it has a great appetite. Its food, no doubt, includes the 

 eggs of more valuable fishes, and it certainly consists in large part of the 

 seeds and bulbous roots of water plants, in the taking of which it deprives 

 water fowl of their favorite sustenance and roils the water so as to make it 

 disagreeable for fishes loving purity and cleanliness in their habitat. 



In some lakes, such as Canandaigua and Chautauqua, it has become 

 very abundant and extremely unpopular, and there is a steady demand 

 for its extermination. Whenever a fish proves to be a nuisance and a 

 menace to the existence of superior species with which it comes in con- 



