J. PISCICULTURE AND THE FISHERIES. 401 



and making the very moderate allowance of a possible an- 

 nual yield often pounds offish to each acre, worth five cents 

 per pound, the sum of $80,000,000 would represent the actual 

 income to the state from this source, which is more than equal 

 to a two years' yield of the wheat crop in Minnesota. 



The Commissioners also propose to do what they can for 

 the multiplication of w*hitefish,Lake Superior trout, eels, etc. 



ARKANSAS FISH COMMISSIONERS. 



The State of Arkansas has passed an act, approved No- 

 vember 29, 1875, for the appointment of three Commissioners 

 to consider the subject of introducing sea-fish into the rivers 

 of Arkansas, and the introduction of new varieties of the 

 fresh-water species, as well as the protection offish generally 

 in Arkansas waters, and report on the same to the next 

 session of the Legislature. The gentlemen appointed as Fish 

 Commissioners were Messrs. M. H. Dunn, of Pine Bluffs, J. R. 

 Stedman, of Little Rock, and N. B. Pearce, of Fayetteville. 



BIENNIAL REPORT OF THE CALIFORNIA FISH COMMISSION. 



The biennial report, for the year 1874-75, of the California 

 Fish Commission has been publislied, and gives an account 

 of the labors of Messrs. Redding, Throckmorton, and Farwell 

 in the administration of the trust confided to them by the 

 state. Referring to their previous report for the account of 

 an unsuccessful experiment at introducing fresh-water and 

 marine fish of the Atlantic slope to California by means of 

 an aquarium car, they have the pleasure of announcing the 

 entire success of the renewed effort on the part of Mr. Liv- 

 ino-ston Stone. 



Among the principal fish thus introduced were 173 full- 

 grown spawning black bass placed in Napa Creek; 16 full- 

 grown wall-eyed perch {Liicioperea) placed in the Sacramen- 

 to; 56 large Schuylkill cat-fish and 18 Mississippi cat-fish 

 placed in the San Joaquin, near Stockton ; 70 horned pout 

 in Sacramento County; 12 eels in a lake near Sacramento; 

 305 small Eastern salmon in the Sacramento ; and 4 full- 

 grown black bass in Napa Creek. 



Of salt-water fish, twenty-three tautog were deposited 

 in the bay of San Francisco. The experiment with lob- 

 sters was not so successful ; of 150 full-grown individuals, 



