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REPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF FISH AND FISHERIES. 



Green Lake Station, Maine (H. H. Buck and Seymour Bower, Superinten- 

 dents). 



This station being- new and incomplete, tlie year opened witli improve- 

 ments in progress. Mr. H. H. Bnck was in charge nntil August 31, liis 

 resignation having been tendered in A])ril, but remaining unacted upon 

 owing to delay attending the selection of an efficient successor. He 

 was followed by Seymour Bower, who was appointed from the foreman- 

 ship of the Put-iu-Bay Station, Ohio, and arrived for duty Septejnber 

 12. Mr. Bower's services, however, being solicited by the commissioners 

 of Michigan, he tendered his resignation May 8, in order to accept the 

 superintendency of the fish-cultural oi)erations of that State. Owing 

 to the inconvenience of providing a competent successor, Mr. Bower's 

 services were retained until, June 30. Ou his departure affairs were 

 temporarily put under direction of the foreman, W. H. Munson. 



Fry resulting from the April hatching and on hand at beginning of 

 the fiscal year, by estimate, were as follows : Landlocked salmon, 60,000 ; 

 Loch Leven trout, 10,0005 Von Behr trout, 10,000; total, 80,000. 



During July they underwent but little loss, but in Angust many 

 deaths occurred. In September active measures were instituted with 

 a view to checking the mortality. The changes were in the nature of 

 increasing the depth of water in the rearing-troaghs from 2A to 4 inches, 

 daily cleaning with scrub brushes and salt, increasing the flow of water 

 through troughs, and more systematic and careful f<'eding. The num- 

 bers, by count, in Det^ember were but 4,903 landlocked salnum, 1,805 

 Loch Leven trout, and 1,252 Von Behr trout. Subsequent losses were 

 trifling, there being but 14 dead removed in the four months following. 

 The maximum water temperature in July was 82° F., in Angust 70°, 

 and in September G8°. During the four months' ]>eriod Just referred 

 to there were no deaths among the 3,800 landlocked salmon hatched in 

 April, 1801, held in the reservoirs. On May 5 the fish of April, 1892, 

 were again counted and transferred from rearing-])onds to new earth 

 ponds, the numbers being, landlocked salmon, 4,050: Loch Leven trout, 

 1,088; Von Behr trout, 1,042; total, 7,380. 



In A])ril there were shipped alive to the World's J^'air by Car Ko. 3 

 100 of each kind of trout and 300 of the salmon; also, 200 of the salmon 



