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•v. • J\, %: . V. ■*. *-May Not Make Effort* ,Reappointment In1915Geo, W. Miles, State Fisfr arid_ ’ » ^Game Commissioner, spent Sunday in Syracuse. He Is making a visitto various places in NorthernJJndi-” ■* *ana in the interest of fish and game.He states that his commission expires in April of 1915 and as yetThe is undecided as to whether hejwill seek reappointment He has accomplished many of the things he set out to do when he entered upon his duties and other of his plans will be well under way before his term is out.Mr. Miles intends that the eggs taken from the cisco that are caught each fall by seining permitted by the state fish and game commission in Northern Indiana lakes musti • . .be preserved and turned over to■the hatcheries for breeding purposes.Additions to the state hatchery» aat Columbia City make posible the spawning of pike and cisco. The female of these species of fish scatter the eggs in the Water and the male follows and fertilizes them. From only one egg in a hundred is a minnow born by nature’s method, but in the hatchery practically every” iegg brings forth a fish, thus, by preserving the cisco eggs many times*more of the breed would be put back Into the lake erich spring than were taken out the previous fall.Mr. Miles stated that options have been secured on ground adjacent to the fish hatchery between Lake Wawasee and Lake Papakeet-chie and that the spawning grounds will be enlarged as soon as the weather permits.
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Syracuse Journal
Syracuse, Indiana, US
Thu, Feb 19, 1914
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