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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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ching fishways and their usefulness in aidingthe passage of fish over obstructions as said Commissioners may deem useful orexpedient. The Commissioners were apparently in doubt about the legal status of fishwaysand applied to John A. Loring for an opinion, who said: By the law of thisCommonwealth, all persons who may build dams on streams annually frequented byfish, do so under an obligation to keep open sufficient sluices and fishways for thepassage of fish at proper seasons. And a company whose charter makes no provisionfor such fishways in dams which they build, is under this obligation as much as ifsuch charter in terms required fishways to be built. The report itself with plan of a fishway is very comprehensive and shows clearlythe need of fishways to maintain a supply of certain of our food fishes, and it isreferred to here simply to show that the Commissioners at that time realized theimportance of constructing passes over river obstructions to enable food fishes to THE BOWMAN.
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REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONERS OF FISHERIES, GAME AND FORESTS. 223 reach their natural spawning grounds from which they had been cut off by theerection of dams for power purposes. Long before the State of New York had aFisheries Commission to make a report to the Legislature, the law-making body hadenacted, viz: in 1801, that no dam should be erected on streams flowing into LakesOntario, Erie or Champlain, to prevent salmon from following their usual course upsaid streams, and when dams were erected they should be provided with fishways toenable fish to pass over the obstructions. In the first report of the Fisheries Commission of the State of New York thesubject of fishways is treated seriously, and the Commissioners say, If any Stateerects an impassable dam across the stream between their spawning beds and theirwinter resorts, they (the fish) will disappear utterly. This refers to salmon chiefly.The New York Commissioners were also in doubt about the legal status of fishwaysin dams bec

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