Excerpt from Roosevelt Wild Life Annals, Vol. 1

The present report on the fish of Oneida Lake is part of a comprehensive plan devoted to the study of the fish and fisheries of these waters, and is the result of special field studies and collections made by several persons and covering a period of years. It was begun by the senior author in 1914 and carried on more extensively with the assistance of the junior author and others, during the summers of 1915 - 1917, while in 1921 some studies of the fish of the lake in winter and in spring were conducted. A brief survey of the shore fishes was made in September 1927, by Mr. Wilford A. Dence, Professor T. L. Hankinson and Dr. Charles E. Johnson.

The major objective of these investigations was to make a contribution toward a system of fish cultural management for the lake. The detailed results of several special studies on the molluscan food of the fishes of Oneida Lake have already been published by Baker who later made an intensive quantitative study of the productivity of the macroscopic invertebrate fish food in the shallow water of Lower South Bay, which is on the south shore of the lake. Still later, Baker assisted Professor Henry S. Pratt in making a study of the worm parasites of the fishes of the lake, the results of which were published by Pratt and Van Cleave A preliminary list of the fish was published by the present authors. Intensive field studies by the Roosevelt Station staff were then interrupted by similar investigations demanding attention in the Palisades Interstate Park, in the Allegany State Park, Erie County, and in Cranberry Lake in the Adirondacks. Considerable work had already been done in the preparation of this report, but since the two authors severed their connection with the Roosevelt Wild Life Station, a special effort has been made to get this progress report in shape for publication. The limited time available necessitated considerable abbreviation of the original plan, although an cfiort was made to bring the accounts of the various species reasonably up to date.

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