REPORT OF COMMISSIONER OP FISH AND FISHERIES. 



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The accompanyiug table shows the number of fishes of various kiuds 

 ou hand at the close of the fiscal year : 



Alvena Station, Michigan (F. N. Clark, Superintendent). 



Previous to the opening' of the spawning season the superintendent 

 and foreman made a tour of Lakes Michigan, Superior, aud Huron for 

 the purpose of preparing for the fall work. Every fishery of importance 

 was visited from Saginaw Bay, north through the Straits of Mackinac, 

 down the eastern shore of Lake Michigan to Frankfort, the north shore 

 of Lake Michigan, through Detour Passage and along Lake Superior as 

 far as Whitefish Point. At the different grounds all possible arrange- 

 ments were made for the use of tugs and nets. 



Lalce trout. — Of eggs of this species, there were collected during 

 the season 8,746,000, more than three times the number collected in 

 the fall of 1893, and twice as many as were ever handled before at the 

 station. The season opened October 18, and the last eggs were taken 

 on December 10. Following are the points at which the eggs were 

 taken and the number taken at each point : Au Sable, 565,000 ; Alpena 

 aud vicinity, 451,000; Caribou Island, 1,000,000; Detour, 1,930,000; 

 Manistique, 1,350,000; Beaver Island, 1,800,000; Charlevoix, 1,650,000; 

 total, 8,746,000. All of these eggs were shipped to Northville Station 

 to be hatched aud distributed from that point. 



Whitefish. — In former years not less than 70 per cent of whitefish 

 eggs were collected from fish caught in pound nets, but this year most 

 of the pound nets were blown out at the opening of the spawning sea- 

 son, and only 6,581,000 eggs were thus secured. The balance were 

 taken from fish caught in gill nets iu December, and the i^oor percent- 

 age hatched (57) is due to this fact, as gill-net fish usually yield very 

 poor eggs. 



A total of 49,299,000 whitefish eggs were collected at the following 

 points: Charity Islands, 640,000; Miller Point, 300,000; Alpena and 

 vicinity, 2,989,000; Warehouse, 640,000; Naubinway and Schelien, 

 2,030,000; Seulchoix, 200,000; Charlevoix (Manitou Island), 6,800,000; 

 Cross Village, 880,000; Beaverlsland, 12,080,000; Manistique, 14,740,000; 

 Put- in-Bay, 8,000,000; total, 49,299,000. 



