XXIV REPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF FISH AND FISHERIES. 



2. — PRINCIPAL STATIONS OP THE UNITED STATES FISH COMIVIISSION. 



The Stations of the Commission enumerated in tbe last report were, 

 for tlie most part, occupied during the past year. It may, liowever, be 

 well to enumerate them again. Classifying them as before, the list i? 



as follows: 



A. — Investigation and Research. 



1. Gloucester, Mass. — Capt. S. J. Martin, in charge of this station, 

 continues bis weekly reports of the products of the offshore fisheries 

 of that city, whicb have been collated and jiublished from time to time 

 in the bulletins of the Fish Commission. 



Captain Martin visits every vessel on its arrival, and obtains the 

 statistics of the catch during the voyage ; and as there is no other 

 organization for obtaining these data his figures are largely used in the 

 market reports of the Boston and Gloucester papers. 



Ever since the establishment of the Fish Commission station at 

 Gloucester in 1878, the Commission has kept an office on Fort Point 

 wharf for the collection of facts and specimens, and for constituting a 

 convenient medium of communication between Captain Martin, the 

 agent of the Commission, and the fishermen generally. 



Some question having arisen as to the lease, the quarters in question 

 were given up, and the work has since been performed by Captain Mar- 

 tin without any special headquarters. 



2. WoofVs HoU, 3Iass. — This continues to be the chief summer locality 

 for investigation and research and the summer station of the vessels of 

 the Commission. 



The arrangements made for enlarging the work at this point will be 

 more fully detailed hereafter. 



3. Saint Jerome, Md. — This station is maintained for experiments in 

 oyster culture, and the hatching of marine fish, especially of the Spanish 

 mackerel. It was first established by Maj. T. B. Ferguson, as a com- 

 missioner of Maryland, but after a time was operated jointly by the 

 Maryhmd and United States Commissions. On the 24th of April, 1882, 

 however, it was formally transferred to the United States Commission, 

 and the liabilities of the lease from Mr. John W. Wrightson assumed. 

 All the property of the Maryland commission was purchased at a fair 

 valuation. 



B. — PROrAGATION OF SALMONIDiE. 



4. Grand Lalce Stream, Me. — The propagation of the land-locked 

 salmon is carried on here on a lai'ge scale under the direction of Mr. 

 Charles G. Atkins. 



5. Buclcsport, Me. — The work of this station is priujarily connected 

 with the multiplication of Penobscot salmon, although 1,()0(),0()() eggs 

 of the whitefish sent from Northville, ]\Iich., were hatched here and 

 l»laced in Eagle Lake, on Mount Desert, at the request of Mr. Mont- 

 gomery Sears. 



C. Nortkville, Mich. — This establishment is principally concerned in 



