406 ANNUAL RECORD OF SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY. 



River. Acknowledgments are made to the United States 

 Fish Commissioners for the donation of a number of eggs of 

 the California salmon, which were hatched at the establish- 

 ment at New Castle, Ontario. 



Of interest to some American salmon fishermen, who re- 

 sort in so great numbers to the rivers of the Dominion for 

 the purpose of taking salmon with the rod, is a table, giving 

 the number of captures in all the rivers in the provinces of 

 Quebec and New Brunswick. The largest credits are 1311 

 to the Restigouche, and 654 to the Nepissiguit. Next to 

 these the Great Cascapedia furnished 418 fish, of an average 

 weight of twenty-three and a half pounds, the largest fish 

 weighing forty-eight and a half pounds. 



NINTH ANNUAL REPORT OF THE MASSACHUSETTS COMMISSION- 

 ERS OF FISHERIES. 



The Massachusetts Commissioners of Fisheries have pub- 

 lished their ninth annual report, for the year ending Jan- 

 uary 1, 1875, which, like its predecessors, occupies a prom- 

 inent part in the histories of state and national measures 

 taken for multiplying the food fishes. The principal work 

 of the Commissioners consisted in hatching.- the eo-o-s and. 

 planting the young of the California and Maine salmon, and. 

 the hatching of shad in the Merrimac River at North An- 

 dover. A few land-locked salmon were also obtained from 

 Sebec, and distributed to different parts of the state. The 

 number of shad caught at And over, in 1874, was 1680, which 

 furnished 6,249,000 spawn. Of these 3,500,060 were hatched 

 and distributed in various waters of the state. The average 

 of the yield of eggs was 10,278 to each female. 



NINTH REPORT OF THE FISH COMMISSIONERS OF CONNECTICUT. 



The ninth report of the Fish Commissioners of Connecti- 

 cut, made to the General Assembly at the May session of 

 1875, has been published by these gentlemen, and contains 

 the usual evidence of their activity and energy in prosecut- 

 ing the labor intrusted to them. They report a good deal 

 of work in stocking the ponds of the state with black bass, 

 as also in the hatching of shad in the Connecticut River, and 

 their distribution. They are quite satisfied^ that the meas- 

 ures taken by the state to multiply this last-mentioned fish 



