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Excerpt from Report of the Department of Fisheries of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania: From December 1, 1911 to November 30, 1912
In the more cultivated parts of the country the old trout streams have so warmed Up that they are no longer fitted for the life of the brook trout, and all experiments to restock these streams with the speckled beauties have proven failures. The brown, or German trout, will, however, live in much warmer water than the brook trout, and many of the old brook trout streams in which no longer brook trout will live, are being restocked with brown trout to great advantage.
While to many the brown trout is not an equal in game qualities to the brook trout, yet it is a far superior fish in game qualities, that will live in the streams that it will, and therefore it is a sort of Hobson's choice. In some sections of the State, the brown trout has really become the favorite and the anglers are clamoring for brown trout. To meet this want the Department is increasing its stock of brown trout breeders and will try and keep it up so as to furnish all the demands upon it. For a number of years California or rainbow trout have been planted in the streams of the State, but the catches reported are but few and far between showing that the habitat is not a favorable one for these fish. In their native sections these trout spawn in the spring, and it was thought that it would be a good supplement to the brook trout in the Pennsylvania hatch eries to add the rainbow trout, which would come in when the troughs were empty of the brook trout. Unfortunately, however, the rainbows have taken on the habit of spawning about the same time as the brook trout, and, as shown above, they do not seem to increase in the streams and their propagation does not seem to be desirable.
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