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Identifier: annualreport891901021newy (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)
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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ched fromthe same lot of eggs. These included the normal form, the typical fan-tail, andone which was so deep bodied that it could scarcely balance itself in swimming. The goldfish in the New York Aquarium were never troubled by fungusparasites. In many of our streams and ponds, the goldfish has run wild, and hundredsof the olivaceous type will be secured to one of a red color. In the fauna of themoraine ponds and in quarry holes, the goldfish stands first. It will breed infoul water where only catfish and dogfish (Umbra) can be found. Eugene Smith. The goldfish is extremely variable in color and form. It is usually orange, ormottled with black and orange, yet in some streams and even in pond culture,silvery individuals are often more common than any of the mottled varieties.The species grows to the length of twelve inches. It spawns early in the springand is subject to many dangers and is attacked by many enemies. The fish,however, is extremely hardy, prolific, and tenacious of life.
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< 3 CO < DC< COU- Q _J o Carp 312 REPORT OF THE FOREST, FISH AND GAME COMMISSION. C&rp (Cyprinus carpio Linnaeus). Cypri?ius carpio DeKay, N. Y. Fauna, Fishes, 188, 1842; Jordan & Gilbert, Bull. 16, U. S.Nat. Mus., 254, 1883; Bean, Fishes Penna., 55, pi. 1, colored, 1893. The carp is a native of Asia and has been introduced into Europe and Americaas a food fish, chiefly for pond culture. It thrives in all warm and temperateparts of the United States, and reaches its best condition in open waters. InTexas it has grown to a length of twenty-three inches in eleven months afterplanting. The leather variety is most hardy for transportation. Mr. Hessel hastaken the carp in the Black and Caspian Seas; salt water seems not to beobjectionable to it, and it will live in stagnant pools, though its flesh willbe decidedly inferior in such waters. The carp hibernates in winter except inwarm latitudes, takes no food and does not grow; its increase in size in temperatelatitudes occur

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