KEPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF FISH AND FISHERIES. 



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and pens were put in place during August and September, and tlie iirst 

 trout were captured in the latter month. At Cold Stream Pond the 

 lake trout made their appearance on the spawning-grounds October 8, 

 and the run continued until the 19th. 



The following table shows the number of fish captured at the various 

 field stations and eggs secured : 



The number of eggs secured exceeded the collections of past seasons, 

 558,500 landlocked salmon eggs being obtained from 235 adults, an 

 average of over 2,000 per fish. At the close of the spawning season 

 the fish were all liberated, without loss, in the waters from which they 

 were taken. The results attained at Enfield were particularly grati- 

 fying, considering that operations were undertaken at that point late 

 in the season. It is expected that over 1,000,000 togue eggs will be 

 collected there another season, as the fish are abundant and easily 

 captured. Of the 150,000 eggs secured, 75,000 were left at Enfield in 

 charge of Mr. E. J. Darling, superintendent of the State hatchery, to 

 be hatched and liberated in the waters from which they were derived. 

 The brook-trout and landlocked-salmon eggs collected at Flood Pond, 

 Winkempaugh Brook, and Patton Pond were hauled to the station by 

 wagon over rough country roads immediately after fertilization and 

 suffered a loss during incubation of from 8 to 14 per cent, whereas the 

 loss on the eggs collected from fish captured in Green Lake and penned 

 at Great Brook (about ^ mile from the hatchery) was only 3i per cent. 



During the late fall and early winter 120,243 landlocked-salmon eggs, 

 25,000 brook-trout eggs, and 10,000 golden-trout eggs were shipped to 

 various State fish commissions, private applicants, and other stations of 

 the Commission. The balance of the eggs were held at the station to 

 be hatched and liberated as fry and yearlings. The fry commenced 

 hatching on January 4 and by April 30 were all out. In view of the 

 heavy mortality experienced during the previous July it was decided 

 to abandon all eftbrts to carry the brook and golden trout during the 

 summer; 225,000 of the former and 59,144 of the latter were distributed 

 during May and June. 



On December 24 a consignment of 1,000,000 salmon eggs was received 

 from Battle Creek, Cal., in excellent condition, only 7,270 having died 

 en route; 50,000 of these were turned over to the State of Maine and 

 the balance were distributed, immediately after the absorption ^of the 

 sac, in Union Kiver and its tributaries during the month of May. 



