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TWELFTH ANNUAL REPORT OF THE 



Little Clear Lake. 



1901 

 1902 



1904 



!9°5 

 1906 



15,506,000 eggs 



13,818,000 eggs 



11,718, 000 eggs 



6,384,000 eggs 



3,969,000 eggs 



3 , 908 , 000 eggs 



Frostfish. 



This is a New England name for one of the lesser whitefishes, which 

 is also sometimes styled the round whitefish, menominee whitefish or chivey. 

 It is an excellent food fish, attaining sometimes to the weight of two pounds. 

 The Fulton Chain hatchery is in the vicinity of important frostfish lakes, 

 and the eggs of the fish are secured from November to December. Foreman 



FROSTFISH 



Burke, of Old Forge, had varying success in various lakes of the Fulton 

 Chain. Up to November 13th, First Lake furnished 400,000 eggs. Third 

 and Fourth lakes, up to November 19th, gave poor results. On First lake 

 three nights fishing were lost on account of ice. The lake froze over where 

 the fish were spawning, and the men could not get to the grounds. Big 

 Moose lake, which contains a very large race of frostfish, proved a good field. 

 The eggs were taken there up to the end of December in fair numbers. In 

 Third lake nearly all the fish taken were females, and not enough males 

 were caught to fertilize the eggs. 



Lake Trout. 



The principal supply of lake trout eggs was obtained in October at 

 Owen Sound, Lake Michigan. Thirteen hundred and sixty quarts were 



