Identifier: annualreportof3189618newy (find matches)
Title: Annual report of the Commissioners of Fisheries, Game and Forests of the State of New York
Year: 1895 (1890s)
Authors: New York (State). Commissioners of Fisheries, Game and Forests
Subjects: Forests and forestry Fisheries Game and game-birds
Publisher: (Albany, N.Y. : The Commission)

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he plunging bucket forhatching shad was invented. For the next few years reports of the capture of plantedfish were received from many waters; haddock, Melanogrdmmus ceglefinus, andSpanish mackerel, Scomberomorus macidatus, were successfully propagated, and theestablishment of fish commissions in the various States of the Union continued untilnearly every State was at work increasing its food supply by cultivating fishes. The operation of hatching fish ova differs with different species of fish (after theeggs are impregnated) depending upon the character of the eggs. The fertilization ofthe eggs is always the same with all species. The fishes cultivated artificially inEurope are the so-called game fishes or hook and line fishes chiefly. In America notonly are the hook and line fishes propagated but a large number of commercial fishesalso. The Atlantic salmon, Salmo salar; Pacific or quinnat salmon, Oncorhynchustschawytscha; land-locked salmon, Salmo salar Sebago; red salmon, 0. nerka;
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< H H ^ g £ B o tt M o O H S o o fc O K ^ - s * w w O o ^ 2 O t. FISHERIES, GAME AND FORESTS. 195 silver salmon, O. kisutch; brook trout, Salvelinus fontinalis; rainbow trout, Salmoirideus; steelhead trout, Salmo gairdneri; black spotted or Rocky Mountain trout,Salmo my kiss; Sunapee trout, Salvelinus alpimis aureolns; lake trout, Cristivomernamaycush; Loch Leven trout, Salmo levenensis; brown trout, Salmo fario; yellowfinned trout, Salmo mykiss macdonaldi ; whitefish, Coregonns clapeiformis; stripedbass, Roccus lineatus ; shad, Alosa sapidissima; pike-perch, Stisostedion vitreum ;sea bass, Centropristes striatus; Adirondack frostfish or round whitefish, Coregonusquadrilateralis; codfish, Gadus callarias; alewives, Pomolobus cestivalis ; flatfish,Pseudoplenronectes americanns; crappies, Pomoxis sparoidcs, and P. annularis;flounder, ParalicJithys oblongns; haddock, Melanogrammus ceglcfinus; lakeherring, Argyrosomus artedi; lake sturgeon, Ancipenser rubicundis; mackere

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