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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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In selecting property for the park the Commissioners have tried to consult the
convenience not only of the people who live in the towns along the river, but also the
people in the State at large who may desire to visit the park by means of the
organized lines of travel. At the same time it has been the object of the Board to
secure desirable property from a commercial point of view, well wooded, and of
suitable size, with proper and convenient water approaches.
As the Dominion of Canada has taken and is taking an active interest in creating
the park, to which she contributes a greater number of islands than this State can
hope to contribute, for the reasons already stated, and as the islands and mainlands
will be open to the people generally from both sides of the river, it will be most
desirable that the fish, game and forest laws applying to the river should be uniform,
and to this end, we would recommend that laws be enacted for the St. Lawrence river
such as Canada will also be willing to enact for the government of the waters and
lands within the confines of the park.
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AN IDEAL TROUT POOL.

Suggestions and Recommendations.

IN our report of last year we recommended that power be granted to this Commis-
sion, by legislative enactment, to close waters for a term of years not to exceed five,
when in the judgment of the Commissioners such action is necessary to establishor re-
establish fish in such waters. This power is given to Fisheries Commissioners
in other States and it is most desirable that this Commission should have similar
powers, the waters to be closed by posting notices on the banks of the streams or
lakes which are to be stocked or restocked, and by notices in the local newspapers
stating the period for which the waters are closed to all fishing. The tendency is to
fish a stream as soon as it is stocked, and in the case of newly-planted waters, the fish
should be allowed to grow to maturity and spawn at least once before fishing is per-
mitted, if the fish are to be permanently established in the waters.
At present the Commission must go to the Legislature and urge that the
machinery of that body Le set in motion to close a stream a few miles in length when
the same result may be attained by a few posted notices signed by the Commission,

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