564 REPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF FISH AND FISHERIES. 



under Seine hauled should give the hours of the day between which 

 successive hauls were made, and the number of seine-hauls in the time 

 specified. Under Fish taken should be recorded the entire number of 

 shad from the seine-hauls, divided, according to sex, under Males and Fe- 

 males; under Elpe fish, the number of "spawners" and "milters" under 

 Male and Female respectively. Eggs obtained is intended for the total 

 number of eggs for the day. The Period of hatching can be obtained 

 without difficulty or error if the spawning-boxes are numbered and a 

 record made of the date and hour when the eggs are placed in each 

 box. This record and the following ones have, of course, no reference 

 to the date in the preceding column. The Loss will be estimated with 

 more or less accuracy according to the method used for the purpose. 

 Under Remarks, a variety of record incident to the day may be inserted : 

 as, " The temperature of the water was so high that the eggs impreg- 

 nated showed no vitality ;" or, " The heavy northwest wind and sea cap- 

 sized twenty-five of the boxes; 1 ' or, " 50,000 young fish from eggs impreg- 

 nated on July 24 and 25 were released into the river." 



Table B is for the operations of hatching-houses which have received 

 eggs from stations at the streams where they have been impregnated 

 and carried forward to the point of development when they can be 

 shipped with safety. 

 The blank, if filled out for Vermont, would read : 

 Record of operations of M. G. Edmunds, fish-commissioner of Ver- 

 mont, conducted at Charlestown, N. H., in hatching and distributing 

 young of Penobscot River salmon, from October 22, 1874, to January 5, 

 1875. 



The. heading Line, No., relates to the numbering of the lines from the 

 top of the page downward ; the Date refers to the time at which the 

 eggs were received; under Received from, the Government or State 

 commission or other source contributing the eggs is to be recorded ; 

 Whence received relates to the locality of the spawn-procuring sta- 

 tion ; Time of journey, from the date at which the eggs were packed 

 for shipment to the time of their arrival at the hatching-station and 

 the transfer to the hatching-troughs; General condition refers to 

 their condition on arrival ; under Number of eggs received : From 

 the United States, relates to those supplied by the United States Com- 

 mission; From other sources, all others, and Total the sum of these two 

 supplies ; Loss in unpacking means the bad eggs that have been in- 

 jured before arrival, which may include all that give evidence of loss of 

 vitality within twenty-four hours after they have been put in the hatch- 

 ing-apparatus, providing, of course, that there is no evidence apparent 

 of injury from other causes than those incurred in transportation; 

 Fish hatched is intended to include all that emerge from the egg, 

 except such as may hatch prematurely from injuries received during the 

 transportation of the eggs ; the Young distributed relates to the 

 number that are put alive into their destined waters ; Where planted 



