XLII REPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF FISH AND FISHERIES. 



take of eggs was 134,.5(tO,()00, wliieli were oT»tained from tlie following 



grounds : 



Toledo 42,400,000 



Port Clinton 11, 200, 000 



East Sister Island 22, 400, 000 



Bass Island 58, 560, 000 



Of these, 15,000,000 were delivered on Ai)ril 27 to the agent of the 

 Pennsylvania Fish Commission for its Erie hatchery; 17,600,000 were 

 transferred at Toledo to TJ. S. Fish Commission car No. 3 and taken to 

 Louisville, Ky., where they were hatched, the fry being estimated at 

 10,000,000 and placed in Kentucky waters. The remaining eggs were 

 held and hatched at the station, producing 40,000,000 fry, of which 

 12,000.000 were planted in Lake Erie and the balance mainly in the 

 waters of Michigan, Ohio, and Indiana, the jieriod of distribution being 

 from May 13 to 25. 



Lalce herring. — Experiments were made in the propagation of the 

 lake herring, 1,500,000 eggs of this species being obtained. Tlieeggs 

 are non-adhesive, and average about 75,000 to the quart. They can be 

 impregnated and handled as readily as those of the whitefish, with 

 which they were simultaneously hatched, a good percentage of fry 

 being produced. Further attention to the propagation of this species 

 will be given the next season. 



TahJe of icater temperatures (at 8 a. m.). 



HOTE.— From Dec. 27, 1891, to Mar. 27, 1892, tlie temperature remained uniformly 33° to 31°. 



