244 TWELFTH ANNUAL REPORT OF FOREST, FISH AND GAME COMMISSIONER. 



the Missisquoi river, and has released millions of pike-perch in Lake 

 Champlain.* 



As a measure for the protection of our fishing interests I would recom- 

 mend that section 47 of the Forest, Fish and Game Law be amended by 

 striking out all that part after the first three lines of the section, which 

 would have the effect of keeping pike taken outside the State out of our 

 markets during the close season for pike, and would very materially 

 strengthen section 47a, relative to the transportation of fish from the 

 Province of Quebec. 



Another section which imperatively requires amendment is section 

 52, relative to polluting streams. The last eight words of this section 

 should be stricken out. 



John B. Burnham, 



Chief Protector. 



* This hatchery was first started by the State of Vermont at Swanton in 1901, but 

 has been operated by the Federal Government since 1903. Fish and Game Commis- 

 sioner H. G. Thomas of Vermont is authority for the statement that in the first four 

 years of its operation 80,000,000 pike-perch were planted. The new government 

 hatchery on the Missisquoi river has a much larger capacity than the old hatchery. 



