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Title: American food and game fishes : a popular account of all the species found in America, north of the equator, with keys for ready identification, life histories and methods of capture
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Jordan, David Starr, 1851-1931 Evermann, Barton Warren, 1853-1932
Subjects: Fishes
Publisher: New York : Doubleday, Page & Co.
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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ns in the fall when the water is grow-ing colder. The season extends from late August in the LakeSuperior region to October and November or even later in NewEngland, New York and southward. At spawning time the fishwill push far up even the smallest creeks where the spawningbeds are selected upon gravel bottom in shallow water. Therethe eggs will lie until the next spring—anywhere from 90 to 210days—when the water begins to grow warmer and the eggsbegin to hatch. The number of eggs produced varies with the age and sizeof the fish, yearlings usually producing 150 to 250, two-year-olds350 to 500, and older ones 500 to 2500. The size of the brook trout varies greatly; in small streamsthey may be mature at a length of 6 or 8 inches and a weightof but 2 or 3 ounces, while in larger bodies of water and withan abundant food supply they reach 18 inches or even more,and a weight of several pounds. Forty years ago brook troutweighing 4 to 6 and 8 pounds were not uncommon. 208 .„*^:^^^^^ ^
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lii^ -4. Brook Trout; Speckled Trout But as the trout streams everywhere came to be fished moreand more, the trout became smaller and smaller, until now itis a rare trout that escapes the anglers fly until he has reacheda greater weight than a pound or two. The trout are rapidly disappearing from our streams throughthe agency of the lumberman, manufacturer, and summer boarder.In the words of the late Rev. Myron W. Reed, a noble man,and an excellent angler,—This is the last generation of trout-fishers. The children will not be able to tlnd any. Alreadythere are well-trodden paths by every stream in Maine, NewYork, and in Michigan. I know of but one river in NorthAmerica by the side of which you will find no paper collar orother evidence of civilization. It is the Nameless River. Notthat trout will cease to be. They will be hatched by machineryand raised in ponds, and fattened on chopped liver, and growflabby and lose their spots. The trout of the restaurant willnot cease to be; but h

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