KEPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF FISH AND FISHERIES. 79 



ScHoODic STA.TION, Maine (Charles G. Atkins, Superixtendent). 



The fiscal year opened w itb 50,000 landlocked salmon in the rearing- 

 tronglis, the liatcliing of tlie Ai)ril preceding. The losses amounted in 

 July to 106 and in August to 1,346. Late in August about 48,000 were 

 liberated in Grand Lake and its outlet. In September all property was 

 stored, the services of employees discontinued, and subsequently such 

 part of the apparatus as was deemed of value transferred to the Craig 

 Brook Station, work being permanently stopped, and further operations 

 with the landlocked salmon conducted at Green Lake Station. 



Craig Brook Station, Maine (Charles G. Atkins, Superintendent). 



Some minor but important constructions during the year made this 

 station almost perfect for the hatching and rearing of salmonidae. 



AtlantiG salmon. — The most important departure in fish-cultural 

 methods was in the disposition, widely apart on the lawn, of stands of 

 reariug-troughs fed by water of different origin, the object being to 

 prevent the recurrence of a wholesale spread of disease like that of the 

 preceding year, and, in the event of the reappearance of unfavorable 

 symptoms, to determine, if practicable, the underlying cause and the 

 measures favorable to its eradication. No unfavorable developments 

 occurring, the seat of former attacks remained undiscovered. 



The collection of Qg,g'!^ was again effected, in cooperation with the 

 authorities of the State of Maine. There had been purchased in June, 

 1892, and confined in the inclosure at Dead Brook, 222 adult fish, of 

 which number 170 were available in October and November, 108 being 

 females. The result in eggs was 1,108,500, of which 1,025,000 were 

 alive in February when division was made, the portion of the Maine 

 commissioners being 565,000 and that of the United States 460,000 5 

 of these latter, there were shipped as follows : 



The remainder, 217,000, were applied to hatching and rearing. The 

 Maine commissioners being desirous of devoting a portion of their quota 

 of eggs to further stocking the Penobscot River, arrangements were 

 effected for developing and hatching at the station as many of their 

 stock as 200,000, they providing the additional labor and supplies requi- 

 site to meet the increased demands. These authorities subsequently 

 donated 84,000 fry to the United States. 



Forty-three salmon, resulting from eggs taken November, 1887, yielded 

 in November, 1891, about 12,000 eggs, and in November, 1892, produced 

 about 23,000 eggs. As the parent fish from the fry stage had been 

 continuously held in fresh-water ponds of the station, thereby becoming 



