22 REPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF FISH AND FISHERIES. 
The station at Baker Lake, Washington, was operated as hereto- 
fore for maintaining the supply of blueback salmon, which is of great 
importance commercially on Puget Sound. The run of fish reaching 
Baker Lake was very small, and owing to the washing away of barriers 
which had been erected to stop tneir ascent, only 4,171,000 eggs were 
secured. From these 3,834,000 fry were hatched and released in Skagit 
River and Lake. An effort was also made to propagate silver salmon 
at this station and on the Rogue River, but with slight suceess. 
Very encouraging reports have been received from time to time 
relative to the successful introduction of steelhead trout in the Great 
Lakes and other eastern waters, hence all the eggs of this species 
collected at Elk Creek, a tributary of the Rogue River, were sent 
to eastern stations, except 65,000, which were hatched and planted in 
local waters. 
The usual arrangements were made during the summer for the 
collection of lake-trout eggs on Lakes Superior and Michigan by the 
superintendents of the Michigan and Minnesota stations. ‘The field 
embraced Port Arthur and Rossport, Ontario, Grand Portage, Minn., 
Isle Royale, Ontonagon, and other points in Michigan, and yielded 
11,900,000 eggs. On Lake Michigan only 200,000 were secured prior 
to the close of the fishing season; but acting under authority of laws 
passed by the Michigan legislature, which permit the capture of fish 
during the closed season for the purposes of artificial propagation, 
10,500,000 were collected between November 12 and 28 at Beaver 
Island from tugs fished by two commercial fishermen. This work was 
done by the superintendent of the Northville station, under direction 
of the State fish and game warden and his deputies. The total collee- 
tion for the season amounted to 22,400,000, from which 19,000,000 
fry were hatched and planted in the waters of the Great Lakes. 
In addition to collecting white-fish eggs as usual from commercial 
fishermen, arrangements were made for penning large numbers on 
the Detroit River and at several points on Lake Erie. The work 
proved very satisfactory, the Detroit River yielding 203,560,000 eggs 
and Lake Erie 194,234,000, making a total of 397,794,000. Large 
consignments were sent to the hatcheries on Lakes Superior and 
Ontario, with the view to keeping up the supply of this important fish 
in those waters. The total plants of white-fish fry in all the lakes 
amounted to 326, 106,000. 
Great interest having been manifested inthe propagation of lake 
herring, plans were made for extensive operations, but owing to the 
severity of the weather only 61,000,000 were obtained. 
For the purpose of keeping up the supply of pike perch in the Great 
Lakes and stocking interior waters in the States bordering on them, 
steps were taken early in April to collect eggs on Lake Erie and on 
the Missisquoi River, Vermont, a tributary of Lake Champlain. On 
Lake Erie the season opened propitiously early in April, but violent 
storms occurred soon after, which not only wrecked the fishing gear, 
