REPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF FISH AND FISHERIES. 21 



on tlio 2()tli of June it was <luly si^iiod by ALi-. Foster. For the hatcli- 

 ery the price was -ft, 174.80; for th(^ dwelling- house, ,f.'),()(>7; and for 

 the stable and tool-liouse, $1,317, contract for m hich was made June 13, 

 1891. The Hume, which will ha\e a len,yth of nearly 7,050 feet, will 

 aggregate a cost of about -f 0,800. 



1889-90. 



Pending the ac(\uirement of a site, it Avas decided to begin iish-cultural 

 operations at Green Lake in the fall of 1880. A cainj) was established 

 on the lower part of (jreat Brook for the collection of eggs, arrange- 

 ments being made by erecting barriers to j)revent the further ascent 

 of the salmon nnd an inclosure for their retention till ready to spaMni. 

 For the development of the eggs secured a cheap structure containing 

 the necessary trough space was ])ut at Maun Brook. 



Operations in spawn-taking were begun November 4, and in eleven 

 days 204,700 eggs were produced from 75 females, the catch of males 

 being 50. The eggs develoi)ed slowly, the Avater being very cold. On 

 April 8, 1890, 10,000 eggs were forwarded to Cold Sjiring Harbor, N. Y., 

 and from those remaining there were produced 150,000 fry, which 

 were liberated in Green Lake, io June. In October, 1889, a consign- 

 ment of landlocked salmon and lainbow trout, which had been held at 

 Craig Brook Station till 7 months old, was receiNed and liberated 

 in Green Lake and tributaries. 



Upon weighing and measuring the Green Lake salmon it was found 

 that they were twice the size of those of Grand Lake Stream, 09 fidl- 

 roed females averaging 7.8 pounds in weight and 25.5 inches in length; 

 the average weight of 50 males being 5,01 pounds, and their length 

 22.3 inches. One female weighed 11 jMrnnds 9 ounces and measured 30 

 inches; another, 11 ])ounds G <mnces in weight, was 30J inches long; 

 one male reached 13 pounds 8 <mnces in weight and was 31 inches long. 



1890-91. 



The ])roduction of landlocked salmon eggs between October 31 and 

 November 21, 1890, was 185,000. The fry from these, with the excep- 

 tion of 3,000 released June 10, 1891, on account of fungus, were kept in 

 rearing troughs beyond the termination of the present fiscal year. The 

 adult llsh captured, 40 females and 21 males, were again Ibund to be of 

 l.'irge size, the former averaging 7 pounds in weight and 25.2 inches in 

 length, and the latter pounds 9 ounces in weight and 25.1 inches in 

 length, while 3 females and 4 males were in excess of 10 pounds weight 

 each. At the close of spawn taking, in Novend)er, the barriers were 

 removed and these brood fish set free in the lake. Anotlier consign- 

 ment of reared fish, 7 months old, consisting of Swiss lake trout, 1 ami- 

 locked salmon, and Loch Ijcven trout, was received in October, 1890, 

 from Craig Brook Station and placed in Green Lake and its tribu- 

 taries. 



