370 BULLETIN OF THE UNITED STATES FISH COMMISSION. 



" It is proposed to have recourse to all the sources of supply above 

 indicated, and to occupy with the collecting force the whole river from 

 Chapman's Point to Washington. Should it he found expedient or 

 necessary to employ the Fish Hawk on the Potomac Eiver, it will be 

 best to station her at Chapman's or Glymont, and assign as her field of 

 operations all the shores and gillers below and including the Pomonkey 

 fishing shore. The vessel should be used as an auxiliary collecting 

 station, and the eggs taken should be shipped direct from Glymont to 

 the Central Station, Washington. 



'< II. Transportation of eggs. — It is not necessary or desirable 

 that any special means of transportation from the collecting stations to 

 Washington should be provided. The steamer Corcoran, in her daily 

 trips to Mount Yernon, furnishes every desirable facility and conven- 

 ience. The eggs should be held at the collecting stations in circulation 

 of water from twenty-four to forty -eight hours. In this time most of 

 the dead and unimpregnated eggs will have been cleaned off, and at 

 this stage of development the live eggs may be transported on trays 

 with little or no loss, and will reach Central Station in first-rate condi- 

 tion. 



" It is important that the eggs during transit should be in the per- 

 sonal charge of a messenger. He may be detailed from the employees 

 of Central Station, the detail being varied from time to time to suit the 

 convenience or exigencies of the work. 



" For the service of the collecting force there will be needed certainly 

 one steam launch (preferably a Herreshoff ). The work of collecting 

 eggs is very exacting and must be performed without regard to hours 

 or weather, and since the disabling of the launch and the necessity of 

 repairs would seriously embarrass the work if we have but a single one, 

 I would recommend that provision be made for two. The second, when 

 not needed otherwise, will be available for the necessary work of inspec- 

 tion or investigation. 



" III. Propagation. — All eggs obtained from the auxiliary or col- 

 lecting station will be sent to Central Station for incubation and hatch- 

 ing. 



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" I respectfully submit herewith a plan of organization of the per- 

 sonnel of the work, and an estimate of the expenditures necessary to 

 conduct the work in accordance with the program submitted. 



" The entire expenditure will not exceed $0,000, and it is probable 

 that such economy may be practiced in the organization and conduct 

 of the work as to reduce the entire expenditure for the season below 

 $5,000." 



The program submitted was approved by the Commissioner, who 

 authorized an expenditure not to exceed $5,000 in carrying out the plan 

 of operations proposed. 



