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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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resource of the older fish when other supplies fail. In the first daysof spring the creatures in every stage, eggs, larvae, and perfect, though microscopicentomostraca, swarm in the water, on the mud and on the foliage of the water plants.At such times trout feed mainly on them. They are eating the weed bare of the cling-ing film of microscopic larvae of water-fleas, Cyclops and other fresh water ento7>iostraca. * * * Experiments made on trout showed that when fed upon worms only they grewslowly, others fed upon minnows did better, but a single fish fed upon insects weighedtwice as much at the end of the experiment as a pair of those reared upon minnowsand worms respectively. This review brought up tne question of saimon fasting in fresh water, and Mr.Cornish replied in a letter from which I make the following extract: I am not quite sure whether there is not a period when salmon do fast, the resultof some sexual conditions. But this entomostraca probably forms a large part of the
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THE CRAY-FISH (Cambarus affinis). FISHERIES, GAME AND FORESTS. I 15 food of salmon, as of all other fishes, both in salt and fresh water. But what I write tosay is this: Last May I was in the splendid aquarium of the Amsterdam ZoologicalGardens. There I found that all the fish were fed on cntomostraca, and that herrings,soles, cod, paradise fish from China, and odd fish of all sorts from the Tropics andlast, but not less, the sea anemones, all ate them greedily. The particular ejitomostracaused when I was there were water-fleas, caught in muslin nets in some nice dirty pondsfrequented by the water fowl. In the net they looked like red sawdust, and not less sowhen thrown into the water. Professor Verrill, in his report upon the invertebrate animals of Vineyard Sound,says: These small Crustacea are of great importance in connection with our fisheries,for we have found that they, together with the shrimp, constitute a very large part ofthe food of our more valuable edible fishes, both of

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