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Identifier: annualreport16190910newy (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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Champlain, the St. Law-rence, the Ohio Basin, the Susquehanna, the Delaware, the Hudsonwith adjacent small streams such as the Passaic, Hackensack,Wallkill and Bronx, and the large inland lakes, many of whichcommunicate with Lake Ontario. Long Island is richer in fish than the rest of the State, but itsspecies are chiefly marine. There are 217 marine forms of fishlife around Long Island and only 27 fresh water species in thestreams and lakes, of which 13 or more have been introducedwithin the last century or two. In the waters of the State thereare now catalogued between 375 and 400 species. In 1842, Dr. DeKay knew only the Yellow Perch, the Roach,Banded Pickerel and Brook Trout from Long Island. Dr.Mitchill transferred Yellow Perch from Lake Ronkonkoma toSuccess Pond, a distance of 40 miles, in 1790. Some of our most important fishes run up periodically from thesea into the fresh waters for the purpose of spawning. Amongthese are the Sea Lamprey, two species of Sturgeon, the Eel, the
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