DEPARTMENT OF FISHERIES,

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PRACTICAL RESULTS FROM ARTIFICIAL FISH BREEDINGS
The following letters and extracts from various sources are here given a
evidences of the benefits which are being experienced from the planting of fry of
various kinds in the waters of Canada, from the fisb•breeding establishments of the
country :—
BENEFITS FROM NEWCASTLE HATCHERY, ONT,
BELLEVILLE, 8th December, 1888.
Mr. CHAS. WILM0T,
Government Fishery Hatchery,
Newcastle.
DEAR Sia,—..In answer to your enquiry as to the result of planting whitefish fry
in the Bay of Quinte for some five years past by yourself, under instructions from
the Fisheries Department, it gives me great pleasure to report to you that in my
opinion the work has been very successful as far as my experience shows. During
the past year the catch of whitefish has been greater than during the past fifteen
years. I have been a fisherman on the bay for thirty years, and, strange to say,
the whitefish taken in this section are mostly all under size, averaging a little more
than a pound in weight. This small run of fish is undoubtedly the result of the
placing of young fry in this vicinity during the past five or six years.
Yours respectfully,
SAMUEL GEDDES.
BAY OF QUINTE, 14th December, 1888.
Mr. C. WILM0T,
Newcastle Fish Hatchery.
SIB,—I have been fishing in the Bay of Quinté and the lower part of Lake
Ontario for the last thirty years, and can testify that the whitefish taken during last
October have been far in excess, as regards numbers, than in any previous year in
my recollection, and it affords me great pleasure to attribute the increase to the
action of the Government in planting large numbers of young fry in the locality
during the last five years.
Yours very truly,
W. BLACH.
BAY OF QUINT DIsTRICT, 8th December, 1888.
Mr. C. WILM0T,
Government Hatchery, Newcastle.
Siu,-—We, as old resident fishermen on the Bay of Quinté, beg to report to you
that the placing of large numbers of young whitefish and salmon-trout in this
vicinity by the Government for some years past has proved most successful.
During the last year we have shipped 12,500 pounds of whitefish, which in
weight varied from one to two and a half pounds each.