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REPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF FISH AND FISHERIES. 



STATION REPORTS. 



Scnoouic Station, Maine (Ciiaklks (i. Atkins, SurKUixTKXDENT). 



1889-90. 



This station was conducted jointly by the United States and Maine 

 and 'New Hampshire. Operations were begun September 1, 1889, and 

 871 landlocked salmon were caught and impounded. Of these, 557 

 were females, from which 1,215,4:'>5 eggs were obtained by November 

 24. The losses were 1G3,005, there remaining in February, 1890, 

 1,052,450 good eggs, of which the State of Maine received 48,000, New 

 Hampshire 73,000, and the United States 931,450. Of those belong- 

 ing to the United States, 035,000 were distributed to various State lish 

 commissions and other hatcheries, as mentioned in the details of dis- 

 tribution (pages 75 to 90). One shipment of 20,000, sent to Fort Gaston 

 Station, California, was a total loss, as a result of detention while en 

 route, the losses on the other twenty shipments amounting to but 4,240 

 eggs. The 290,450 eggs retained produced 214,000 fry,"which were able 

 to take food at the time of their release in local waters, in June, 1890. 



Table of Hpawntng operations at Schoodic Station, Maine, 1SS9-90. 



