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Identifier: annualreport131415190newy (find matches)
Title: Annual report
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: New York (State). Forest, Fish and Game Commission
Subjects: Forests and forestry Fisheries Game and game-birds
Publisher: (Albany, N.Y. : The Commission)
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even on amuch more efficient plan of service. With the law as it should be, theseresources would also yield sufficient revenue to purchase all the additionalland the States interests demand. The methods which should be employedto obtain this much desired result, and the necessity for it, are subjoinedunder the forestry section. The willful trespasses were less during 1908than any previous year, aggregating 25; all of them were small. Twenty-nine old ones, which had been committed prior to 1908, were discovered,such as cutting fire wood, or a tree here and there. The total violations of all kinds during 1908 were 742. There were 413former violations undisposed of January 1, 1908, making a total of 1,155 an<told during the year. Three hundred and six were placed in the hands ofthe legal department. Eight hundred and forty-nine were disposed ofdirectly by the Department. Total disposed of, 1,043, leaving unsettled112. A complete statement of the work done by the legal department will
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FOREST, FISH AND GAME COMMISSIONER. 33 be found in the report of Chief Attorney J. K. Ward, which will form partof this report. Hatcheries We now have nine fish hatcheries. They are located at Bemus Point,Chautauqua county; Caledonia, Livingston county; Bath, Steuben county;Constantia, on Oneida lake, Oswego county; Old Forge, Herkimer county;Saranac Inn, Franklin county; Margaretville, Delaware county; Linlithgo,Columbia county, and Cold Spring, Suffolk county. The output from thesehatcheries has been increased each year since 1904. That year the Statehatcheries produced about 111,000,000 fish. In 1908 it has been increaseduntil the production has reached the large output of more than 400,000,000fish. It will be noticed that in less than four years, with practically thesame expenditures, the annual output has been quadrupled. The black bass ponds at Constantia — which were established abouttwo years ago — doubled the production of bass over that of the first year,and are a decide

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