REPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF FISH AND FISHERIES. *37 



Tlic question, lu)wo\c'r, jis to tlic jjiccise origin of llic lisli sent by 

 j\Ir. Jiot'dcr uiid the others releiied to by hiiii is coiiiijiicated by tlio 

 fuct thiit in 1<S72 the Duieau of the German Fisherei-Verein made 

 aiTan^ements for the jiresentation to the United States Government 

 of 250,000 eggs of the Khine salmon, obtained at the imperial estab- 

 lishment at lliiningen, and I purehased 500,000 iif addition from Mr. 

 Sehuster, of Freiburg. When these had been i)roi)erly brought forward 

 in the respeetive establishments of lliiningen and Freiburg, they were 

 l)laced in charge of Mr. IJudoljdi Uessel, now the superintendent of 

 the United States carp ponds in Washington, and transferred to New 

 York. Owing- to the unseasonable warmth of the vduter and to the 

 absence of ice, these eggs could not be kept down to a sufficiently low 

 temperature, and on arriving at New York it was found that the greater 

 part bad perished. The remainder were taken to the establislinrent of 

 Dr. J. II. Slack, at Bloomsbury, N. J., and by diligent care on the part of 

 ]Mr. Ilessel about 5,000 were saved and hatched out. These were placed 

 in the Muscanetkong, a tributary of the Delaware, in the spring of 1873. 



According to Dr. Hudson, a salmon, weighing 18J pounds, was taken 

 in a gill-net near the mouth of the Connecticut on the 8th of June, 187G, 

 and sold in the Hartford market for the sum of $10. A few were also 

 seen in the summer of 1877. 



The results of the experiment were more satisfactory in the Merri- 

 mack Eiver than in either the Delaware or the Connecticut, as a consid- 

 erable number made their appearance at the Lawrence fishway early in 

 June, and at Manchester on the 13th of June. Quite a large number 

 in all were noted, and the commissioners of Massachusetts and New 

 Hampshire are determined to press the business of restocking the Mer- 

 rimack with great vigor. A full-grown salmon was seen at the Law- 

 rence fishway on the 3d of October, representing a later run during that 

 month. 



The Land-locked Salmon. 



Grand Lale Stream Station, Maine. — The work of gathering and for- 

 warding the eggs of land-locked salmon, during the season of 1877-78, 

 was, as heretofore, in charge of Mr. Charles G. Atkins, at the establish- 

 ment on Grand Lake Stream, in Eastern Maine, the methods being sim- 

 ilar to those of previous years. A series of stakes and fine meshed nets 

 was set on the gravelly shoals below the dam of the outlet of Grand 

 Lake, enough to entraj) the whole run of breeding-fish. The eggs were 

 brought forward in the old hatching-house at the spring on a little brook, 

 a tributary of Grand Lake Stream. 



The report of Mr. Atkins, as submitted in the Appendix, will explain 

 all the details connected with this work, illustrated by a diagram of the 

 grounds. 



As in previous years, the State commissioners of Massachusetts and 

 Connecticut co-operated with the Commissioner of the Uuited States in 

 carrying on the work, the division of eggs being made pro rata. The 



