REPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF FISH AND FISHERIES, XXXI 
hatched. 75,000 fry were successfully planted in Lake Ontario, near 
Oswego, N. Y. 
j. The Smelt (Osmerus mordac). 
Large numbers of smelts were hatched at the Cold Spring Harbor 
Station, the parent fish having been obtained on the south side of Long 
Island. The hatching was rendered difficult by the glutinous nature 
of the eggs, but about one-half were developed. Over 2,000,000 young 
were planted in Cold Spring Harbor and 50,000 were deposited in 
Saranac Lake, in northeastern New York. 
About the first of April a lot of eggs were sent to Northville Station, 
where they arrived in bad condition and apparently dead, but upon 
digging into the mass about 15 or 20 per cent. were found to be good. 
k, The Whitefish (Coregonus clupeiformis). 
Notwithstanding the stormy and very cold weather 129,400,000 white- 
fish eggs were obtained during November and December for the hateh- 
ing stations at Northville and Alpena, Mich. The first eggs were re- 
ceived from Lake Erie November 7; the last from Lake Michigan 
December 13. On November 28 about 30,000 eggs were taken from 
two whitefish which had been hatched and reared at the Northville 
Station; this is believed to be the first record of their breeding in cap- 
tivity. The hatching season at Northville lasted from Mareh 11 to 
April 12; at Alpena, from April 22 to May 8. 
82,600,000 eggs were distributed, mostly to neighboring state fish 
commissions; 62,070,000 fry were planted in waters of Michigan, Ohio, 
Indiana, and New York; 2,500,000 eggs were sent to England, 1,000,000 
to Germany, and 1,500,000 to New Zealand; 5,000,000 were forwarded to 
the Central Station at Washington; 10,000,000 each to the State hatch- 
eries of Pennsylvania and Minnesota; 1,000,000 to New York, and 
1,600,000 to Delaware. From the 1,000,000 eggs sent to the Cold 
Spring Harbor Station nearly 950,000 young were obtained, and these 
were deposited in deep, cold lakes on Long Island. 
l, The Dwarf White fish (Coregonus albula). : 
In January, 1886, Max von dem Borne sent 80,000 eggs of this species 
as a gift from the Deutsche Fischerei- Verein, by Herr von Behr, to the 
United States Fish Commission. These were received at the Cold 
Spring Harbor Station, and Mr. Mather was directed by the Commis- 
sioner to forward 70,000 eggs to Bucksport and .10,000 to Northville. 
Mr. Atkins received his allotment February 1. The first fish hatched 
out March 24, and about 51,000 young were obtained; these were 
planted April 21, 1886, in Heart Pond, a small lake near Bucksport 
which empties into the Eastern River, a small tributary of the Penob- 
scot. Some of the eggs sent to Northville were hatched March 7, but 
no healthy young were secured from them. 
