DISTRIBUTION OF FISH AND FISH EGGS, 1912. 



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DETAILS OF OUTPUT FOR 1912. 



Notwithstanding the severe handicap ])hiced upon the Bureau's 

 work hy abnormally unseasonable weather during the spawning 

 period of many imjH^rtant species, the egg collections were 225,000,000 

 m excess of those of the previous year, and the output in round num- 

 bers exceeded that of 1911 by 41,000,000 fish and eggs. The species 

 produced m larger numbers in 1912 included the cod, lobster, flatfish, 

 pollock, haddock, shad, cisco, the silver, chinook and humpback sal- 

 mons, steelliead, rainbow, Sunapec, and blackspotted trout, white 

 perch, 3'ellow perch, striped bass, warmouth bass, white bass, fresh- 

 water drum, and smelt. 



The following table shows the work of the different stations in 1912 

 the period of operation, and the eggs and fish delivered by each 

 station for distribution. It will be noted that transfers of eggs and 

 fish from station to station are frequent, serving economy and 

 convenience in transportation where the shipment consists of eggs, 

 and giving advantageous distributing centers m the case of young fish. 



Stations Operated and the Output of Each for the Year 1912. 



a For convenience in handling, transfers were made as follows: 



Baird to Central Station, 20,000 chinook salmon eggs. 



Hombrook to Clackamas, 100,000 rainbow trout eggs. 



Mill Creek to Nashua, 100,000 chinook salmon eggs. 



Birdsview to Quilcene, 435,000 humpback salmon eggs and 450,000 silver salmon eggs; to Ducka- 

 bush, 492,000 silver salmon eggs; to Central Station, 48,000 silver salmon eggs; to St. Johnsbury, 2,000 



silver salmon eggs and 25,000 steelhead trout eggs; to Duluth, 75,00 * " '" 



25,000 steelheadf trout eggs. 



Elwha to Quilcene, 60,000 silver salmon eggs. 



1,000 steelhead trout eggs; to Bozcman, 



