REPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF FISH AND FISHERIES. 17 



The maximum and minimum temperatures of the water and air at 

 the station from January 1 to June 30, 1895, were as follows: 



Month. 



January . . 

 February . 



March 



April 



May 



June 



Water. 



Air. 



Max. Min. Max. 



50 



32 

 32 

 32 

 33 



58 1 41 



63 45 



Min. 



—26 



—22 



—10 



12 



33 



52 



Note. — The sign — indicates below zero. 

 Gloucester Station, Massachusett.s (A. C. Adams in charge). 



The lobster and mackerel work of the previous fiscal year was con- 

 tinued until July 14, under the direction of W. P. Sauerhoft", during 

 which time, from 55 egg-bearing lobsters, 717,000 eggs were taken and 

 052,000 fry hatched and liberated in the harbor off Gloucester. Dur- 

 ing the season the fishermen in the vicinity of Gloucester apparently 

 took but little interest in the work of the Commission, and it was diffi- 

 cult to get them to save their egg-bearing lobsters. 



Maclcerel. — Work with this species was very unsatisfactory, owing 

 to the limited supply of eggs and the consequent lack of opportunity to 

 experiment with water conditions, etc. Only four lots of eggs, aggre- 

 gating 580,000, were obtained, 38,000 of them being taken in July, on 

 the 10th. The eggs commenced hatching six days after being taken, 

 but the fry died immediately. 



On July 27 the station was closed and placed in charge of a watch- 

 man until I^ovember 1, when cod operations were resumed. 



Cod. — The season opened November 22, 1894, and closed March 19, 

 1895, during which time 50,120,000 eggs were taken and 12,929,000 fry 

 hatched and liberated. The spawn-taking force, directed by Capt. E. 

 E. Hahn and consisting of a part of the crew of the Grmnpus, was sta- 

 tioned at Kittery Point, Me., for convenience in taking eggs caught by 

 the Ipswich Bay fishermen, who usually market their catch in Ports- 

 mouth and Kittery Point. The balance of the crew was on duty at 

 the station. From the 793,000 good eggs received in November 275,000 

 fry were hatched and liberated in good condition oft' Gloucester Harbor. 



The weather in the month of December being favorable for good work, 

 eggs were received almost daily, and by the 20th the hatchery was full. 

 During the month 19,261,000 eggs were collected, from which 11,533,000 

 fry were hatched. Of this number 6,395,000 were liberated off Glouces- 

 ter in December, and the balance in January, the last deposit being 

 made on the 22d. Of the eggs obtained in December 2,481,000 were 

 purchased from two small vessels fishing off Gloucester. The total 

 number of good eggs received in January was 20,981,000, from which 

 1,121,000 fry were hatched and deposited in waters off Gloucester. 

 Toward the end of the month two or three short storms caused the 

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