REPUKT OF COMMISSlONEli OF F18H AND FISHERIES. 



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year, onh' 15 renuiined iit the close of the year. The doiiiestication 

 of the g-rayling has not proved a siiecess, the few lish on hand hav- 

 ing l)een carried for experimental purposes. On the 21st of May 

 181,200 eyed grayling c^^ys were received from the Bozeman Station, 

 120,000 of which hatched, and during the month of June a distribu- 

 tion of 100,000 fry was made in Colorado waters. 



On the 23d of May 35,000 steelhead eggs were received from the 

 collecting station atMedford,Ore. , from which 34,090 fry were hatched, 

 and 33,900 healthy and rapidly growing fish remained on hand at the 

 end of the year. 



On the 26th of February 10,000 landlocked-salmon eggs were received 

 from Craig Brook Station, from which 9,800 fr}^ hatched, and at the 

 close of the year 9,450 remained on hand. 



At the beginning of the year there were on the hatching-trays 

 1,317,800 l)lack-spotted trout eggs, to whicli may be added the collec- 

 tions during the m^nth of July, amounting to 863,900. Of the 

 2,181,700 collected, 175,000 eyed eggs were shipped elsewhere and the 

 balance hatched, with a loss of 17.6 per cent. The distribution of 

 these fish was made during the fall, when 847,000 were planted for the 

 Commission and 560,000 for the owner of Grand Mesa Lakes, the point 

 of collection. During the month of June, 3,016,700 eggs were collected 

 at Grand Mesa Lakes, and the loss to June 30 was 106,000, or 3i per 

 cent, leaving on hand at the close of the year 2,910,700. 



For two months during August, September, and October the super- 

 intendent was detailed to collect statistics and methods of the fisheries 

 in Utah and Colorado. During this time the station was in charge of 

 W. K. Hancock, fish-culturist. 



No material improvements were made at the station during the year 

 in the way of new constructions, although, so far as the funds would 

 permit, the property was kept in good repair. A new tin roof was 

 laid on the kitchen, coal-shed, and storeroom of the messhouse. A 

 small room was built in the workshop, with an inside lining of tin, in 

 which to store seines and nets. The grounds were inclosed by a Page 

 woven-wire fence along the south side and the greater part of the 

 west side, and the balance of the west side was inclosed with a barbed- 

 wire fence. 



The stock of fish on hand at the close of the year is shown by the 

 following table: 



