Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 176, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 August 1918 — Canals Now Fish Ponds. [ARTICLE]

Canals Now Fish Ponds.

Actual stocking of New York’s new fish ponds in the beds of the old Erie and Champlain canals is in full swing. The necessary construction work has been completed and the fish used for stocking -purposes are being-rushed from various points to the canals and liberated at once. The first consignment consisted of a large number of yellow perch fry, which were planted in one of the sections of the old Erie canal near Amsterdam. According to the conservation commission, a quantity of perch spawn was collected by state employees in Adirondack lakes, where these fish are a menace to other fishes in the same waters. Its removal is therefore accomplishing a double benefit.