XXVIU REPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF FISH AND FISHERIES, 



was taken of an adjacent fishery belonging to Messrs. Kuight & Gibson to 

 secure the spawning fish. Here about 1,400,000 young shad were placed 

 in the river, increasing the supply' to that amount. It was now for the 

 first time possible to make a transfer of fish to the West ; and having 

 placed Mr. Milner, an assistant of the commission, in charge of this 

 branch of the work, he succeeded, with the assistance of Mr. Welsher, 

 in introducing about 70,000 fry into the headwaters of the Kanawha 

 Eiver on the 0th and 9th days of June. A supply was also furnished to 

 Mr. jS". W. Clark for the Michigan commissioners. 



The season having closed at this point in consequence of the heat of 

 the water, and the fact that the spawn taken from the fish invariably 

 failed to develop, two new stations were established; one under Mr. 

 Welsher, at Marietta, in Pennsylvania, and the other under Mr. Holtou 

 and C.K. Green, at Bull's Island Ferry, on the Delaware. The business 

 arrangements of this branch of the work were placed in charge of Dr. 

 J. H. Slack, who, as fish commissioner of New Jersey, had certain privi- 

 leges in regard to the capture of the shad, which were important to the 

 success of the enterprise. The fish hatched at this point were priu- 

 cipall^^ placed in the Delaware River, although 15,000 were transferred 

 by Dr. Slack to Jack's Run, at Greensburgh, for the purpose of stocking 

 the Monongahela. 



About the time of the starting the camp at Marietta, the Pennsylvania 

 commissioners began another at Newport on the Juniata, where a con- 

 siderable number of fish were hatched and placed in the river. 



The operations on the Delaware were closed in July, mainly in con- 

 sequence of certain obstructions introduced by the canal company above 

 the hatching-camp, and the regular i)arties proceeded to the camp on the 

 Hudson, at Oastletou, where the New York commissioners have a 

 station, and where a considerable supply of spawn was to be expected. 

 Here the hatching was prosecuted entirely at the expense of the State 

 of New York; her fish commissioners, however, very kindly giving the 

 United States such spawn as was required for its purposes. Mr. Milner 

 assisted by Mr. Mason was actively engaged for several weeks in trans- 

 ferring young shad from Oastleton to various points in the West, becom- 

 ing so well skilled as to involve a very slight mortality. 



At the same time Mr. Livingston Stone, in behalf of the United States 

 Fish Commission, received 80,000 fish from the establishment of the 

 New York commissioners, none of which reached their destination ; the 

 attendant who carried them through to Chicago, where they were to 

 meettheaquarium-car, failing to success in keep them alive' during their 

 journey. 



The attempt to transfer valuable food-fishes from the Atlantic slope to 

 the Pacific slope in the so called aquarium-car, as well as the unfortunate 

 accident by which the car was precipitated from a trestle-work into tlie 

 Elkliorn River of Nebraska not far from Omaha, have become widely 

 known through the newspapers. The enterprise was a joint aftair 



