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8,909 were obtained, and eggs were plentiful and of good quality. At times it 
was necessary to utilize floating hatching boxes moored to the wharf. The 
usual aquarium exhibit was maintained during the summer. 
GLoucESTER (Mass.) STATION 
[C. G. CorRLiss, Superintendent] 
The season’s work opened November 1 with the collection of pollock eggs in 
Massachusetts Bay. Fishing was poor early in the season, and when it improved 
many unripe fish were taken. Early in December a sharp increase in collections 
was experienced, 50,000,000 to 75,000,000 being taken in a day. This enabled 
the station to increase its total take of pollock eggs substantially over the col- 
lections of the past two years 
Cod collections showed a slight regression. Absence of fish on the inshore 
spawning grounds for the greater part of the winter was responsible for this. 
Spring collections in New Hampshire waters were more satisfactory. Most of 
these eggs were planted on the spawning grounds, because it was impossible to 
secure a satisfactory percentage of hatch at the hatchery. The total collec- 
tions were 798,158,000 eggs. 
Only one steamer was engaged in the inshore haddock fisheries, but it made a 
collection of eggs unsurpassed since 1922. The capture of the first brood flounder 
on March 10 initiated this work, and good catches were made until the latter 
part of March. From a brood stock of 327 fish, 192,832,000 eggs were secured, 
which produced upward of 170,000,000 fry. - 
The offshore spawning operations registered a slight increase in the take of 
haddock and cod eggs. A preponderance of unripe fish prevented a take of 
eggs as large as the catch of fish would seem to justify. 
Woops Hoe (Mass.) SraTion 
[G. R. HorrseEs, Superintendent] 
Fish-cultural operations at this station, which is maintained as a scientific 
laboratory during the summer, were of approximately the same extent as last 
year. The cod work differs from that at other stations in that the brood fish 
are retained in a pool until they are ripe. Shipments of cod were made from 
Newport, R. I., and from local sources in November until a total stock of 2,851 
fish was secured. These yielded 291,274,000 eggs, of which 113,826,000 were 
planted in the eyed stage. At the close of the season the fish were tagged for 
scientific purposes and released. 
The flounder work at this point opens in January. Station fyke nets were set 
in Waquoit Bay and yielded 2,297 fish. A continuation of the recently developed 
practice of transporting the adults packed in wet seaweed has proved very satis- 
factory. Over 863,000,000 flounder eggs were taken and the resulting fry planted 
in adjacent waters. 
A number of necessary and important improvements to buildings and grounds 
were effected. There continues a pressing need for a new boat of sufficient size 
to transfer brood cod from the traps to the hatchery. 
ANADROMOUS FISHES OF THE ATLANTIC COAST 
The decline of the fisheries for shad and Atlantic salmon has made 
the propagation of these species uncertain. The Bryans Point (Md.) 
station, devoted exclusively to shad and yellow-perch culture, is 
operated only during the run of these fish. The Edenton (N. C.) 
station raises pondfish as well as shad, while the only Atlantic-salmon 
unit (the Craig Brook (Me.) station) handles as many trout as salmon. 
The past year has shown an increase in the number of shad hatched, 
due to a greater output of the Bryans Point hatchery. 
SHap. Bryans Point (Mp.) SuBsTAaTION 
[L. G. HARRON, in charge] 
Notwithstanding the small catch of shad in the Potomac River and the unfav- 
orable weather that prevailed during most of the spawning season, there was a 
marked increase over the previous season’s take of eggs, a sufficient number being 

