REPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF FISH AND FISHERIES. 

 The fry resulting from tbem were planted as follows: 



37 



Date. 



Apr. 17 

 19 

 22 

 25 

 29 



May 2 

 7 



Locality. 



Number. 



Raspberry Bay, near Bav1i<fld, Wis i 2, 250, 000 



Lake Superior, near Baytield, Wis | 2, 250, 000 



Lake Superior, near Iron River, Wis , 2, 250, 000 



Lake Superior, near Isle Eoyale, Micb i 2, 000, 000 



Siskowit Bay, near Isle Royale, Mich j 1, 500, 000 



do I 500, 000 



Lake Superior, near station | 250, OUO 



Total Ill, 000, 000 



Pile perch.— Between the 23d and 26tli of April 25,000,000 pike-perch 

 eggs were collected in the vicinity of Pike Eiver, Minn. From these, 

 13,000,000 fry were hatched and distributed between May 20 and 31 to 

 parties in Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa, and South Dakota. 



Steelhead trout. — In April 100,000 steelhead-trout eggs were received 

 from Eedwood, Cal., and nearly all of the 75,000 fry resulting from 

 them were deposited in Lake Superior, near Washington Harbor. 



Bainhoic trout. — In February 20,000 rainbow-trout eggs were received 

 from the station at Mammoth Spring, Ark., and 22,680 from Keosho 

 Station. Part of the eggs from Mammoth Spring were too far advanced 

 for successful shipment, and were in poor condition on arrival. From 

 the two consignments 18,000 fry were hatched and distributed to parties 

 in Minnesota and Michigan. 



The water temperatures were as follows : 



Year. 



Month . 



1894. 

 1895. 



dLverage or 

 range. 



Octobei* •••...•......... Range ... 



November Average . 



December ' do 



l....do .... 



January . 

 February. 



March 



April 



May 



June 



-do 

 .do 



do 

 Average . 



Temper- 

 ature. 



50 to 40 

 34 

 32i 

 34 

 34 

 33 

 33 to 45 

 45 to 62 

 57 



QuiNCY Statiox, Illinois (S. P. Bartlett, Superintendent). 



The season of 1894 was an unfortunate one, and had not the free use 

 of a steamboat been obtained the work would have been even more of 

 a failure than it was. The absence of the usual spring overflow of the 

 Mississippi and Illinois rivers and the extreme and protracted drought 

 of the spring and summer caused the ponds which usually furnished 

 the suijply of fish to dry up, and therefore extra and more expensive 

 efibrts had to be made in the collection. In addition to this the tem- 

 perature of the water in the rivers was so high that the fish in the live- 

 boxes rapidly developed fungus, and many thousands were lost. 



At the opening of the season Mr. Eay, the owner of Meredosia Bay, 

 a body of water about 5 miles in length and with an average width of 

 1,000 feet, offered the Commission the use of it, together with a pond 

 just built and such land as might be needed for other ponds, practically 



