FISHERIES OF THE UNITED STATES. 179 



EESULTS OF WOEK. 



1. Publications of the Commission — Continued. 



Appendix C— Continued. 



XIX. Keport on the propagation of tho shad — Continued. 



18. Estaljlishmcnt of station on the Androa- Page. 



coggin KivcT, Maine 440 



19. Second shipment of shad to the waters 



of Lake Chaniplain, Vermont 441 



20. Shipment of sl)ad to tho Detroit and 



Grand lUvers, Michigan 441 



Table of distribution of shad and eels. .. 442 



21. Mode of estimating number of eggs and 



fish 442 



22. The care of the young shad during trans- 



portation 443 



a. The apparatus 443 



b. The care of the fish 444 



c. "Water adapted to youug fish 445 



d. Temperature of the water in the cans 447 



e. Transferring the shad from the cans 



to the river 447 



/. Facilities required from the railroads 448 



23. Possibility of stocking the great lakes 



with shad 449 



24. Popularity of tho woik of the Commis- 



sion 450 



XX. Notes on the natural history of the shad and 



alewife 452 



A. Notes on the shad as observed in Beaufort 



Harbor, X. C, and vicinity. By H. 



C. Yarrow, M. D 452 



B. Notes on the sliad as observed in the Dela- 



ware Pviver. By J. H. Slack, M. D. 457 



1. The importance of sh.ad as a food-fish... 457 



2. Tho decrease in the Delaware 457 



3. The causes of decrease 457 



a. Erection of dams 458 



b. Destruction of fry 458 



c. Destruction of seed-fishes 459 



d. Destruction of impregnated ova 459 



4. Habits of shad in the spawning season. 459 



C. The shad and gaspereau, or alewife, of New 



Brunswick and Nova Scotia. By 



Charles Lanman 461 



1. The shad 461 



2. The gaspereau, or alewife 462 



AFPKNDIX D.— Fi.sh culture (the history, theory, and practice 



offish culture) 463 



XXI. The history of fish culture 465 



A. The history of fish culture in Europe, fi-om 



its earliest record to 1854. By Jules 



Haime 461 



B. Eeport on the progress of pisciculture in Eus- 



sia. By Theodore Soudakevicz 493 



1. The decrease of food-fishes 493 



2. Pisciculture 495 



3. Selection of male and female fish 497 



4. The fecundation of spawn 498 



5. The incubation of spawn 499 



6. Development of the embryo and the 



hatchiu'i of fish 501 



7. Transportatiou of spawn 508 



8. Piscicultural establishment at Nikolsky. 504 



9. Piscicultinal istabli.shment at Suwalki. 511 

 10. Pisciculture at Finland 512 



